netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Basic deferred TX queue flushing infrastructure.

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Date:	Sun, 24 Aug 2014 12:08:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jhs@...atatu.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, therbert@...gle.com,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Basic deferred TX queue flushing infrastructure.

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 10:57:32 -0400

> Clearly, the best thing to do is avoid altogether the need to have
> such a list. The only reason you need a list around is because you
> dont know how much you can send to the driver. tx_win idea may not
> be the best but it tried to address that issue.

I think it is unavoidable for us to have to do a "send and recheck
queue state" approach, because of the issues I brought up the other
day.

Every driver has it's own set of restrictions and how many TX slots
a given SKB can consume in it's TX queue.

So from that perspective a list we perform retries on is an approach
we must consider seriously.
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