netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] qdisc: validate skb without holding lock

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Date:	Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:30:44 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	brouer@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, therbert@...gle.com,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, fw@...len.de, dborkman@...hat.com,
	jhs@...atatu.com, alexander.duyck@...il.com,
	john.r.fastabend@...el.com, dave.taht@...il.com, toke@...e.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] qdisc: validate skb without holding lock

On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 15:36 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> Applied, thanks Eric!

Thanks David

Another problem we need to address is the quota in __qdisc_run()
is no longer meaningfull, if each qdisc_restart() can pump many packets.

An idea would be to use the bstats (or cpu_qstats if applicable)


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