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

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Message-ID: <1291474504.2159.39.camel@mojatatu>
Date:	Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:55:04 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb_private

On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 22:45 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:

> 
> If we breaks the loop when there are still skbs in tq and no skb in
> rq, the skbs will be left in txq until new skbs are enqueued into rq.
> In rare cases, no new skb is queued, then these skbs will stay in rq
> forever.

So should we goto resched? 

cheers,
jamal

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