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

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Date:	Sat, 4 Dec 2010 22:50:03 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb_private

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 10:42 PM, jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 09:18 -0500, jamal wrote:
>
>> I like the splice idea but this patch makes me twitch
>> a little. What test setup did you use to check it?
>
> Ok, here's one thing you changed which is important. We do:
>
>  -->XXX-->rq-->tq-->XXX-->
>
> rq is controlled by queue limit.
> We only load rq to tq if all of tq is empty. If it is not
> we dont move things over. Essentially this is a flow
> control scheme. We dont want many sources to be overwhelming
> us with packets and every time we grab a txqlen number of packets.
> For this reason:
> I would be comfortable if all you did was to add the splice
> after you skb_peek() - i think that would be a good improvement
> which is not bound to break anything else.
>

Maybe you misread my patch. tq is a stack variable in ri_tasklet, and
initialized all the time. ri_tasklet() won't exits until tq is
empty().


-- 
Regards,
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@...il.com)
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