netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: rollback orig value on failure of dev_qdisc_change_tx_queue

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:25:56 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        eranbe@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: rollback orig value on failure of dev_qdisc_change_tx_queue_len

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 7:34 AM Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com> wrote:
>
> Fix dev_change_tx_queue_len so it rolls back original value
> upon a failure in dev_qdisc_change_tx_queue_len.
> This is already done for notifirers' failures, share the code.
>
> The revert of changes in dev_qdisc_change_tx_queue_len
> in such case is needed but missing (marked as TODO), yet it is
> still better to not apply the new requested value.

You misunderstand the TODO, that is for reverting tx queue len
change for previous queues in the loop. I still don't have any
nice solution for this yet.

Yeah, your change itself looks good.

Please update the changelog.

Thanks.