Subject: Re: macvtap: Limit packet queue length

From: Shirley Ma <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:05:26 -0700

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:30 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> In the TX direction, we really don't queue, since we simply forward
> to the lowerdev tx queue, so exposing the tunable to user space
> as the tx queue length is a little bit awkward, as well as
> inconsistent
> between macvtap and macvlan.

Maybe we can use lowerdev backlog queue size here from receiving path
here?

thanks
Shirley