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Message-ID: <20101204154007.GA1981@del.dom.local> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 16:40:07 +0100 From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> To: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb_private On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 09:48:47AM -0500, jamal wrote: > 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 Hmm... But we didn't care until now... ;-) Btw. is it really very probable (and worth bothering) that this current error of NULL dev get fixed before we purge this tq queue with deferral one by one? Cheers, Jarek P. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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