netdev - Re: [PATCH] PATCH 1/2 [SCHED 2.6.24]: Check subqueue status before calling hard_start

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Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:58:42 +0530
From:	Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PATCH 1/2 [SCHED 2.6.24]: Check subqueue status before calling
 hard_start_xmit

> > You could optimize this by getting HARD_TX_LOCK after the check. I
> > assume that netif_stop_subqueue (from another CPU) would always be
> > called by the driver xmit, and that is not possible since we hold
> > the __LINK_STATE_QDISC_RUNNING bit. Does that sound correct?
>
> I don't think this is a critical optimization at this time,
> but something to certainly do along with the surgery
> we'll undoubtedly be doing here in the future :-)

Apologies for the spam...

I guess this check can be completely removed once other qdiscs are modified
to
support subqueue. Essentially sch_prio and sch_rr executes subqueue_stopped
twice for every skb while this check is required only for other qdiscs (and
really
belongs in the individual qdisc dequeue handlers).

Thanks,

- KK

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