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

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Message-Id: <20140823.212607.1097729413788303793.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 23 Aug 2014 21:26:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	therbert@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.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: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:39:05 -0700

> Interesting, but I'm still wondering about MSG_MORE idea. If that is
> passed with ndo_start_xmit than maybe a new ndo function might not be
> needed. Also, since it's advisory, we could pass it to existing
> drivers and let them decide how rather to do anything with it.

My thinking is that if we can have the flush generation logic in a
generic place, we should.

We really do not want every driver to have a unique approach to this
stuff.
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