netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: Functions to report space available in device TX queues

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Message-Id: <20140825.173325.723351409734098574.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:33:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	therbert@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: Functions to report space available
 in device TX queues

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:27:56 -0700 (PDT)

> This patch adds netdev_tx_avail_queue and netdev_avail_queue which are
> used to report number of bytes available in transmit queues per BQL. The
> functions call dql_avail which returns BQL limit minus number of
> inflight bytes. These functions can be called without txlock, for
> instance to ascertain how much data should be dequeued from a qdisc in
> a batch. When called without the tx_lock, the result is technically a
> hint, subsequently when the tx_lock is done for a transmit it is
> possible the availability has changed (for example a transmit
> completion may have freed up more space in the queue or changed the
> limit).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>

Ok this looks fine, but could you please resubmit this alongside
the first use case?

Thanks.
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