netdev - RE: [PATCH 2/2] macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue

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Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:50:52 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'Herbert Xu' <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue

From: Herbert Xu
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:10:16AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > From: Herbert Xu
> > ...
> > > This patch picks the second option and moves all broadcast handling
> > > bar the trivial case of packets going to a single interface into
> > > a work queue.  Obviously there also needs to be a limit on how
> > > many broadcast packets we postpone in this way.  I've arbitrarily
> > > chosen tx_queue_len of the master device as the limit (act_mirred
> > > also happens to use this parameter in a similar way).
> > >
> > > In order to ensure we don't exceed the backlog queue we will use
> > > netif_rx_ni instead of netif_rx for broadcast packets.
> >
> > Should you limit the number of broadcasts queued for transmit
> > on each interface as well as the number of postponed broadcasts.
> >
> > It probably isn't a good idea to completely fill an interface's
> > transmit queue with broadcasts.
> 
> These are *received* packets so I don't see how they're going
> to fill up the transmit queues.

I was thinking of a bridge - where the packets get transmitted.
In this case they get put on the interfaces receive queue,
but the same thing applies.
Maybe there isn't actually a queue at that point?

	David



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