netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] qdisc bulk dequeuing and utilizing delayed tailptr updates

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Date:	Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:05:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brouer@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fw@...len.de, hannes@...essinduktion.org,
	dborkman@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] qdisc bulk dequeuing and utilizing
 delayed tailptr updates

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:35:19 +0200

> Open questions:
> 
> - For now set bulk limit to 8 packets, don't want to stress the driver
>   avail ring_buffer space.

Maybe we can start out with something even lower, like 5.

> - Is the (!skb->next) check in dequeue necessary?
> 
> - Do we need some checks in dev_requeue_skb() as we could be requeuing a SKB list?

The skb->next stuff is to handle GSO software segmented frames.

dev_requeue_skb() naturally handles any list of SKBs already,
GSO software segmented or multi-dequeue, it shouldn't care.
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