linux-kernel - Re: net-sched: When TX over-limit happens on netdev, what does kernel do?

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Date:	Mon, 2 Apr 2012 19:08:35 +0800
From:	Liu ping fan <kernelfans@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-net@...r.kernel.org, Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...erus.ca>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net-sched: When TX over-limit happens on netdev, what does kernel do?

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 16:27 +0800, Liu ping fan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could anybody tell me when TX over-limit happens on netdev, what does kernel do?
>> Is skb buffered in Qdisc->q and the sending process keeps running?
>
> Are you referring to the NETDEV_TX_BUSY return code processing ?
>
Yes.
>> Or we block the sending process and make it scheduled?
>>
>
> We never block the sender process in qdisc layer.
>
For qdisc layer in softirq?

> Only upper protocol layers can eventually block if too many packets are
> in flight on the socket.
>
>> Found some code in net/sched/sch_cbq.c
>> cbq_dequeue(struct Qdisc *sch) --> qdisc_watchdog_schedule(),  so I
>> guess the skb is buffered in Qdisc, but what about sending process?
>
> sender queued its packet and doesnt care if the packet is sent or not.
>
> Only problem is when qdisc limit (number of packets in queue) is hit,
> then we can return an error to sender (packet dropped or congestion
> notification)
>
Got it, thanks.

Regards,
pingfan
>
>
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