netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] sunvnet: Schedule maybe_tx_wakeup as a tasklet from ldc

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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:59:18 -0700
From:	Raghuram Kothakota <Raghuram.Kothakota@...cle.com>
To:	Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] sunvnet: Schedule maybe_tx_wakeup as a tasklet from ldc_rx path


On Aug 13, 2014, at 3:51 AM, Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com> wrote:

> On (08/12/14 21:26), Raghuram Kothakota wrote:
>> 
>> We do not consider a peer which couldn't process LDC messages
>> as an offender but just a peer in a broken state. A peer could get
> 
> So I was using "offender" in the same way that one typically
> talks about sending  ICMP errors for "offending IP packets" 
> (nothing pesonal :-)).  I dont want to quibble over terminology here.
> 
>> From what I read the ldc_disconect() code, it seems like it is reconfiguring
>> the queues, so I assume a reset event would re-enable the communication
>> fine, but I don't know for sure without testing this specific condition.
> 
> No such events were generated by the code when I tested it.

The reset event is expected for the peer, if it is not happening
then we probably need to check why.

-Raghuram
> 
> I'll send a consolidated reply to the rest of that very long thread 
> in a bit.
> 
> --Sowmini
> 

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