netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add documentation for BQL helpers

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Date:	Fri, 06 Sep 2013 08:18:26 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add documentation for BQL helpers

On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 11:58 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:

>  
> +/**
> + * 	netdev_completed_queue - report bytes and packets completed by device
> + * 	@dev: network device
> + * 	@pkts: actual number of packets sent over the medium
> + * 	@bytes: actual number of bytes sent over the medium
> + *
> + * 	Report the number of bytes and packets transmitted by the network device
> + * 	hardware queue over the physical medium (without prepended/appended
> + * 	control blocks, FCS...)

Here, you should instead document that the @bytes must exactly match the
amount given in netdev_sent_queue(), or else BQL can panic.

(each queued skb accounts for X bytes on BQL, so at TX completion, same
X must be unaccounted)


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