netdev - Re: network devices don't handle pci_dma_mapping

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Message-ID: <45777A0C.4010901@hp.com>
Date:	Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:18:52 -0800
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	shemminger@...l.org, muli@...ibm.com, jeff@...zik.org,
	amitkale@...xen.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, brazilnut@...ibm.com,
	netxenproj@...syssoft.com, rob@...xen.com, romieu@...zoreil.com,
	sanjeev@...xen.com, wendyx@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: network devices don't handle pci_dma_mapping_error()'s

David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 16:58:35 -0800
> 
> 
>>The more robust way would be to stop the queue (like flow control)
>>and return busy. You would need a timer though to handle the case
>>where some disk i/o stole all the mappings and then network device flow
>>blocked.
> 
> 
> You need some kind of fairness, yes, that's why I suggested a
> callback.  When your DMA allocation fails, you get into the rear of
> the FIFO, when a free occurs, we callback starting from the head of
> the FIFO.  You don't get removed from the FIFO unless at least one of
> your DMA allocation retries succeed.

While tossing a TCP|UDP|SCTP|etc packet could be plusungood, especially 
if the IOMMU fills frequently (for some suitable definiton of 
frequently), is it really worth the effort to save say an ACK?

rick jones
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