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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>,
	Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>,
	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>,
	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 15:00:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805081500.00682.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080508032208.GA401@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Thursday 08 May 2008 05:22:08 Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> >
> > So there's no way to actually fail in a TX handler? Drivers
> > are doomed to drop the packet, if they cannot handle it due to
> > ring overflow?
> 
> You're supposed to stop the queue before the ring overflows.

Ok, what about DMA error. kmalloc error or something else?
ring overflow was a bad example, of course.

-- 
Greetings Michael.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-08 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-30 12:40 [RFC/RFT 0/4] mac80211 QoS-related enhancements Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 12:40 ` [RFC/RFT 1/4] mac80211: use rate index in TX control Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 12:40   ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 12:40 ` [RFC/RFT 2/4] GSO: generalize for mac80211 Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 12:40   ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-06 16:12   ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-06 16:12     ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 12:40 ` [RFC/RFT 3/4] mac80211: use GSO for fragmentation Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 12:40   ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-07  7:10   ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-07  8:50     ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-07  9:00       ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-07 11:22         ` [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code Johannes Berg
2008-05-07 11:22           ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-07 11:41           ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-07 11:41             ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-07 11:52             ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-07 13:05               ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-07 13:05                 ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-07 13:48                 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-07 13:48                   ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-08  3:22                   ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-08  3:26                     ` David Miller
2008-05-08  3:26                       ` David Miller
2008-05-08  9:00                       ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-08  9:00                         ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-16  2:01                       ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-16  2:01                         ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-16  3:28                         ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-16  4:58                         ` David Miller
2008-05-16 10:32                           ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-16 10:32                             ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-16 10:38                             ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-16 10:38                               ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-16 12:15                             ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-16 19:40                             ` David Miller
2008-05-19  3:08                               ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-19  3:08                                 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-19  7:03                                 ` David Miller
2008-05-08 13:00                     ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2008-05-08 13:08                       ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-08 13:08                         ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-08 13:13                         ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-08 13:15                           ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-08 13:32                           ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-08 13:32                             ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-07 19:19                 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-07 19:19                   ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 12:40 ` [RFC/RFT 4/4] mac80211: use multi-queue master netdevice Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 12:40   ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 14:37   ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-04-30 14:37     ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-04-30 14:45     ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 14:45       ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 15:00       ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 15:00         ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 15:34         ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-04-30 15:34           ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-04-30 15:38           ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-01  8:21         ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-05-01  8:21           ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-05-01  8:54           ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-01  8:54             ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 19:39   ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-04-30 19:39     ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-04-30 20:07     ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 20:07       ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 13:07 ` [RFC/RFT 0/4] mac80211 QoS-related enhancements Johannes Berg
2008-04-30 20:59   ` Michael Buesch

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