Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: lockless transmit path

Eric Dumazet
2010-11-11T17:53:01Z

Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 09:40 -0800, Jesse Gross a écrit :

> If we're only allocating a single queue then we should also drop
> vlan_dev_select_queue() and the netdev_ops that call it. If the
> underlying device is multiqueue and has its own select_queue function
> then it can pick a queue number that is larger than what the vlan
> device has. The problem will be caught by dev_cap_txqueue() but it's
> not right and it would also be nice to get rid of half of those
> netdev_ops.

Hmm, you refer to old kernels dont you ?

My patch is for net-next

The plan is that after last Tom Herbert patches, dev_pick_tx() wont
call do_select_queue() on mono queue device.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/70369/

This logicaly is a second cleanup patch I believe.