netdev - Re: macvtap: Limit packet queue length

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Message-ID: <20100723075829.GA4606@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:58:29 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mashirle@...ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mwagner@...hat.com
Subject: Re: macvtap: Limit packet queue length

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:28:08AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> But this is the receive path, not transmit, so a packet coming from an
> external NIC never goes through dev_hard_start_xmit.

In that case skb->sk is probably coming from tuntap, which means
that orphaning the skb is not necessarily a good thing.

Cheers,
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