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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb_private
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:28:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291472889.2159.18.camel@mojatatu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CFA3F01.20109@gmail.com>

On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 14:15 +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:

> > @@ -87,7 +83,7 @@ static void ri_tasklet(unsigned long dev)
> >  			rcu_read_unlock();
> >  			dev_kfree_skb(skb);
> >  			stats->tx_dropped++;
> > -			break;
> > +			continue;
> 
> IMHO this line is a bugfix and should be a separate patch (for stable).

Should be separate, yes.
Bug? no. 
Improvement, maybe ;->
The idea was to defer processing at the first error. Changli
is changing it to continue despite the error.
The initial goal was to yield whenever possible since we dont maintain
a lot of state.

cheers,
jamal


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-04 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-04  5:55 [PATCH 1/3] ifb: remove the useless debug stats Changli Gao
2010-12-04  5:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] ifb: remove unused macro TX_TIMEOUT Changli Gao
2010-12-04 14:13   ` jamal
2010-12-04  5:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb_private Changli Gao
2010-12-04 13:15   ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-12-04 13:29     ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 14:28     ` jamal [this message]
2010-12-04 14:45       ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 14:55         ` jamal
2010-12-04 15:01           ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 15:09             ` jamal
2010-12-04 14:48       ` jamal
2010-12-04 15:40         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-12-04 16:08           ` jamal
2010-12-04 16:56             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-12-05  0:22               ` Changli Gao
2010-12-05  1:13                 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-05 14:30                   ` jamal
2010-12-05 14:40                     ` Changli Gao
2010-12-05 15:13                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-05 15:16                         ` Changli Gao
2010-12-05 15:13                       ` jamal
2010-12-05 15:22                         ` Changli Gao
2010-12-05 15:31                           ` jamal
2010-12-05 14:27                 ` jamal
2010-12-05 19:09                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-12-04 14:18   ` jamal
2010-12-04 14:20     ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 14:42     ` jamal
2010-12-04 14:50       ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 14:59         ` jamal
2010-12-04 15:07           ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 15:11             ` jamal
2010-12-04 14:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] ifb: remove the useless debug stats jamal

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