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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"Jamal Hadi Salim" <hadi@cyberus•ca>,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@vyatta•com>,
	"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat•com>,
	"Neil Horman" <nhorman@tuxdriver•com>,
	"Jiri Pirko" <jpirko@redhat•com>,
	"Jeff Kirsher" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com>,
	"Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere•qmqm.pl>,
	"Ben Hutchings" <bhutchings@solarflare•com>,
	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor•hengli.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: orphan queued skbs if device tx can stall
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 22:35:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120508193507.GC28536@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334065929.5300.40.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 03:52:09PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> By the way, skb orphaning should already be done in skb_orphan_try(),
> not sure why its done again in tun_net_xmit().

Because we need to force it for skbs which have tx_flags set.

> Note we perform orphaning
> right before giving skb to device on premise it'll be sent (and freed)
> in a reasonable amount of time.

It is usually the case. I think this assumption holds for
tun normally.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-08 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-08 17:13 [PATCH] net: orphan queued skbs if device tx can stall Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-08 23:49 ` Herbert Xu
2012-04-09  7:28   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-09  7:33     ` Herbert Xu
2012-04-09  7:39       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-09  8:29         ` Herbert Xu
2012-04-09  8:34           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-09  8:39             ` Herbert Xu
2012-04-09  8:42               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-09  9:13                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-10  7:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-10  8:41   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10  8:55     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-10  9:31       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10 10:04         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-10 11:25           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10 11:45             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-10 12:41               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10 13:52                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-10 14:10                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-11 21:52                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-08 19:35                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2012-05-08 19:50                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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