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From: Stefan Rompf <srompf@isg.de>
To: "Feldman, Scott" <scott.feldman@intel.com>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, "Cramer, Jeb J" <jeb.j.cramer@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Flush Tx skbs after link down
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:57:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E253096.9F9DB6FE@isg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E252EE9.D8CA8EDC@isg.de


> I think this can't be achieved without driver support, simply because
> pending DMA transfers must be removed before freeing the skbs, and this
> is specific. So the driver model needs to be extended to have a reset

PS: We also need to avoid that new skbs are enqueued while the link is
down without making the critical code path in dev_queue_xmit() much
longer. Right now, I don't have any ideas beyond a proof of concept for
this part.

Stefan

      reply	other threads:[~2003-01-15  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-15  8:31 Flush Tx skbs after link down Feldman, Scott
2003-01-15  9:50 ` Stefan Rompf
2003-01-15  9:57   ` Stefan Rompf [this message]

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