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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: grundler@parisc-linux.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] tulip: Support for byte queue limits
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:39:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1373636385.10804.5.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130712132054.16269.qmail@science.horizon.com>

On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 09:20 -0400, George Spelvin wrote:
> The New Hotness of fq_codel wants bql support, but my WAN link is on my
> Old And Busted tulip card, which lacks it.
> 
> It's just a few lines, but the important thing is knowing where to
> put them, and I've sort of guessed.  In particular, it seems like the
> netdev_sent_queue call could be almost anywhere in tulip_start_xmit and
> I'm not sure if there are reasons to prefer any particular position.
> 
> (You may have my S-o-b on copyright grounds, but I'd like to test it
> some more before declaring this patch ready to be merged.)

Seems fine to me.

You might wait before David Miller re-opens net-next for new
submissions, a bit after linux-3.11-rc1 is released, before
sending an official patch.

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-12 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-12 13:20 [RFC] tulip: Support for byte queue limits George Spelvin
2013-07-12 13:39 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-07-12 16:31 ` Grant Grundler
2013-07-12 18:01   ` George Spelvin
2013-07-12 18:14     ` Grant Grundler
2013-07-15 23:58     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16  1:17       ` Grant Grundler
2013-07-16  1:27         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-07-16 14:37         ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16 17:20           ` Grant Grundler
2013-07-17  4:09       ` George Spelvin
2013-07-17 15:42         ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-31 12:34           ` George Spelvin

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