netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb

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Message-ID: <1291474127.2159.35.camel@mojatatu>
Date:	Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:48:47 -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 09:28 -0500, jamal wrote:

> 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.

Changli:
Other points we could defer processing is in case of packets
being dropped by dev_queue_xmit and netif_rx

cheers,
jamal

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