From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vlan/macvlan 02/02: propagate transmission state to upper layers
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:48:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091110084814.02593603@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF99160.2060607@trash.net>
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:14:24 +0100
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
> vlan/macvlan: propagate transmission state to upper layers
>
> Both vlan and macvlan devices usually don't use a qdisc and immediately
> queue packets to the underlying device. Propagate transmission state of
> the underlying device to the upper layers so they can react on congestion
> and/or inform the sending process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Bridging and bonding have same issue, but the solution is more difficult.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-10 16:48 UTC|newest]
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2009-11-10 16:14 vlan/macvlan 02/02: propagate transmission state to upper layers Patrick McHardy
2009-11-10 16:48 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-11-10 16:56 ` Patrick McHardy
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