netdev - Re: [PATCH] firewire: net: rate-limit log spam at transmit failure

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Date:	Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:12:43 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
CC:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firewire: net: rate-limit log spam at transmit failure

Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> But why the timeout is  never set?

It is set to the default 0.1s per IEEE 1394 in core-card.c::fw_card_initialize.

If card->split_timeout_jiffies or card->split_timeout_cycles /ever/ become
zero, then only due to a memory corrupting bug.

> Also, note that I see here that if I send a TCP stream from one system
> to another then the system that recieves the packets (and sends TCP
> acks), still overflows the queue (error 10, and confirmed by printks).

OK, I'll send a stricter version of "firewire: net: throttle TX queue before
running out of tlabels".
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