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Message-ID: <87sffuvphz.fsf@kurt>
Date:   Sat, 28 Jan 2023 12:59:36 +0100
From:   Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 02/15] net/sched: taprio: continue with
 other TXQs if one dequeue() failed

On Sat Jan 28 2023, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> This changes the handling of an unlikely condition to not stop dequeuing
> if taprio failed to dequeue the peeked skb in taprio_dequeue().
>
> I've no idea when this can happen, but the only side effect seems to be
> that the atomic_sub_return() call right above will have consumed some
> budget. This isn't a big deal, since either that made us remain without
> any budget (and therefore, we'd exit on the next peeked skb anyway), or
> we could send some packets from other TXQs.
>
> I'm making this change because in a future patch I'll be refactoring the
> dequeue procedure to simplify it, and this corner case will have to go
> away.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Reviewed-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>

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