netdev - Re: UDP multicast packet loss not reported if TX ring overrun?

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Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:46:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>,
	Nivedita Singhvi <niv@...ibm.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: UDP multicast packet loss not reported if TX ring overrun?

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> NET_XMIT_CN strikes again :)
>
> Well, if ip_local_out() returns a negative error (say -EPERM for example),
>  your patch disables OUTDISCARDS increments.
>
> Maybe a simpler patch like this one ?

Yes looks good. Can we get this in soon?

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