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Date:	Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:28:09 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb_private

On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 14:15 +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:

> > @@ -87,7 +83,7 @@ static void ri_tasklet(unsigned long dev)
> >  			rcu_read_unlock();
> >  			dev_kfree_skb(skb);
> >  			stats->tx_dropped++;
> > -			break;
> > +			continue;
> 
> IMHO this line is a bugfix and should be a separate patch (for stable).

Should be separate, yes.
Bug? no. 
Improvement, maybe ;->
The idea was to defer processing at the first error. Changli
is changing it to continue despite the error.
The initial goal was to yield whenever possible since we dont maintain
a lot of state.

cheers,
jamal

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