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

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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.
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