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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:52:58 +0100
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: lockless transmit path
Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 09:40 -0800, Jesse Gross a écrit :
> If we're only allocating a single queue then we should also drop
> vlan_dev_select_queue() and the netdev_ops that call it. If the
> underlying device is multiqueue and has its own select_queue function
> then it can pick a queue number that is larger than what the vlan
> device has. The problem will be caught by dev_cap_txqueue() but it's
> not right and it would also be nice to get rid of half of those
> netdev_ops.
Hmm, you refer to old kernels dont you ?
My patch is for net-next
The plan is that after last Tom Herbert patches, dev_pick_tx() wont
call do_select_queue() on mono queue device.
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/70369/
This logicaly is a second cleanup patch I believe.
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