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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 13:48:38 -0700
From: Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>, mpatel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] veth: don't assign a qdisc to veth
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
<brouer@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 09:53:16 -0700
> Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
>> <brouer@...hat.com> wrote:
>> > The veth driver is a virtual device, and should not have assigned
>> > the default qdisc. Verified (ndo_start_xmit) veth_xmit can only
>> > return NETDEV_TX_OK, thus this should be safe to bypass qdisc.
>> >
>> > Not assigning a qdisc is subtly done by setting tx_queue_len to zero.
>> >
>>
>> Huh?? Maybe your $subject is too misleading, but we do use HTB
>> on veth, this will break our code since we will have to set tx_queue_len
>> after your patch, no?
>
> No, you HTB setup should still work.
I wish you are right, but this really worries me...
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=137516888117465&w=2
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