netdev - Re: netdevice queueing / sendmsg issue?

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Date:	Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:18:25 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netdevice queueing / sendmsg issue?

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:

> Software interrupts might be getting lost, dev_kfree_skb_irq() has to
> queue the kfree_skb() to soft IRQ.
>
> Therefore, dev_kfree_skb_irq() will only work properly from hardware
> interrupt context, where we will return and thus run the scheduled
> software interrupt.

Problem solved, stupid user mistake.
I was using netif_start_queue() instead of netif_wake_queue().
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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