netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 05/11] openvswitch: Add recirc action

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:14:26 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Andy Zhou <azhou@...ira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 05/11] openvswitch: Add recirc action

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 00:32 -0700, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
>> From: Andy Zhou <azhou@...ira.com>
>>
>> Recirculation implementation for Linux kernel data path.
>
>
> This is a very lame changelog if you ask me.
>
> Does it involve recursion ?
>
Yes, recursion is used. That why earlier patch in same series exports
xmit_recursion. It limits total number recursions in networking stack
to RECURSION_LIMIT.


> Its really not clear reading the patch what is going on here.
>
OK, I will update commit msg.
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