netdev - Re: macvtap: Limit packet queue length

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Date:	Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:08:59 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Shirley Ma <mashirle@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Mark Wagner <mwagner@...hat.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: macvtap: Limit packet queue length

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:05:26AM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:30 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > In the TX direction, we really don't queue, since we simply forward
> > to the lowerdev tx queue, so exposing the tunable to user space
> > as the tx queue length is a little bit awkward, as well as
> > inconsistent
> > between macvtap and macvlan.
> 
> Maybe we can use lowerdev backlog queue size here from receiving path
> here?

No, you may wish to set different queue lengths for different
macvtap devices over the same lowerdev so you definitely don't
want to use any lowerdev parameter for this.

I honestly don't see any problems with using tx_queue_len since
it isn't used by anything else for macvtap.

Cheers,
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