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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: xiaosuo@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: reimplement completion_queue as a FIFO queue
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:21:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1272266509.2346.2.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100425.232758.101478192.davem@davemloft.net>

Le dimanche 25 avril 2010 à 23:27 -0700, David Miller a écrit :

> No matter what is faster, we have to process packets in
> FIFO order, otherwise we get reordering within a flow
> which is to be absolutely avoided.

Hmm, completion queue is about freeing skb, and its name is misleading.

This queue is feed by dev_kfree_skb_irq() only




  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-26  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-26  3:20 [PATCH 1/2] net: reimplement completion_queue as a FIFO queue Changli Gao
2010-04-26  5:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26  5:44   ` Changli Gao
2010-04-26  6:09     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26  6:27       ` David Miller
2010-04-26  7:21         ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-04-26  7:22           ` David Miller

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