netdev - Re: How do queue-less virtual devices wake higher level senders?

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Message-Id: <20071001.170410.40806513.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:04:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	greearb@...delatech.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do queue-less virtual devices wake higher level senders?

From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:49:06 -0700

> For 'real' hardware, it seems that the netif_stop_queue and
> netif_wake_queue methods handle stopping and waking the
> higher level senders, but for virtual devices with no
> queues, how does this work?

They don't queue, there is nothing to stop or wakeup.
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