netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: reimplement completion

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Message-Id: <20100426.002240.197722540.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:22:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	xiaosuo@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: reimplement completion_queue as a FIFO queue

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:21:49 +0200

> Le dimanche 25 avril 2010 à 23:27 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
> 
>> No matter what is faster, we have to process packets in
>> FIFO order, otherwise we get reordering within a flow
>> which is to be absolutely avoided.
> 
> Hmm, completion queue is about freeing skb, and its name is misleading.
> 
> This queue is feed by dev_kfree_skb_irq() only

Ok I see, thanks for explaining.
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