netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] net: limit maximum number of packets to mark with xmit

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Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:34:18 -0400
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] net: limit maximum number of packets to mark with
 xmit_more

On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:24:49 -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> Under some circumstances, such as with many stacked devices, it is
> possible that dev_hard_start_xmit will bundle many packets together, and
> mark them all with xmit_more.

Excuse my ignorance but what are those stacked devices?  Could they
perhaps be fixed somehow?  My intuition was that long xmit_more
sequences can only happen if NIC and/or BQL are back pressuring, and
therefore we shouldn't be seeing a long xmit_more "train" arriving at
an empty device ring...