Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] qdisc bulk dequeuing and utilizing delayed tailptr updates

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:47:09 +0200

On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 11:04:06 -0700
Tom Herbert <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > This patchset uses DaveM's recent API changes to dev_hard_start_xmit(),
> > from the qdisc layer, to implement dequeue bulking.
> >
> > Open questions:
> >
> > - For now set bulk limit to 8 packets, don't want to stress the driver
> >   avail ring_buffer space.
> >
> Please get limit from BQL also, see:
> [PATCH net-next] net: Functions to report space available in device TX queues

Thank you Tom. I will include that patch in my stack (keeping you as
author), and use the functions you are proposing.

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Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
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