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From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Mark Wagner <mwagner@redhat.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: macvtap: Limit packet queue length
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:05:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279814726.3211.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007221130.53612.arnd@arndb.de>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-22 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-22  6:41 macvtap: Limit packet queue length Herbert Xu
2010-07-22  7:44 ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-22  7:47   ` Chris Wright
2010-07-22  9:30   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-22 16:05     ` Shirley Ma [this message]
2010-07-22 16:08       ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-22 18:42         ` Shirley Ma
2010-07-22 20:09     ` David Miller
2010-07-22 15:59 ` Shirley Ma
2010-07-22 16:07   ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-22 19:58     ` David Miller
2010-07-23  7:28       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-23  7:58         ` Herbert Xu

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