linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net v2] net: sched: do not requeue a NULL skb

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Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:48:59 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	Lars Persson <lars.persson@...s.com>,
	Lars Persson <larper@...s.com>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: sched: do not requeue a NULL skb

On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 16:19 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:

> My point is, for example, in OOM case, we don't know processin
> more SKB would make it better or worse. Maybe we really need to
> check the error code to decide to continue to exit?

Really, given this bug has been there for a long time (v3.18 ???), I
doubt it matters.

Nothing can tell that following packets in the qdisc need any
transformation, and memory allocations.

So I would just fix the bug in the simplest way.

__qdisc_run() has all the checks needed to yield when needed 
(if (quota <= 0 || need_resched())) , no need to add more complexity
there.