netdev - Re: [PATCH v2,1/1] net/hyperv: Fix the code handling tx busy

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Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:27:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	haiyangz@...rosoft.com, kys@...rosoft.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2,1/1] net/hyperv: Fix the code handling tx busy

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:23:11 -0700

> On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 14:23 -0700, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
>> Instead of dropping the packet, we keep the skb buffer, and return
>> NETDEV_TX_BUSY to let upper layer retry send. This will not cause
>> endless loop, because the host is taking data away from ring buffer,
>> and we have called the stop_queue before returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY.
>> 
>> The stop_queue was called in the function netvsc_send() in file 
>> netvsc.c, then it returns to rndis_filter_send(), which returns to
>> netvsc_start_xmit() in file netvsc_drv.c. So the NETDEV_TX_BUSY is
>> indeed returned AFTER queue is stopped.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
>> Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
>> ---
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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