From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Eric Lemoine <eric.lemoine@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, hadi@cyberus.ca, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: LLTX and netif_stop_queue
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:29:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041222202919.057b8331.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5cac192f04122210491d64d4b6@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:49:48 +0100
Eric Lemoine <eric.lemoine@gmail.com> wrote:
> Instead, I would suggest to have LLTX drivers check whether queue is
> stopped after they grab their private tx lock and before they check tx
> ring fullness. That way we close the race window but keep the driver
> bug check around.
>
> See attached sungem patch.
That sounds about right. Nice idea. It solves the race, and retains
the error state check.
I'll apply Eric's patch, and do something similar in the other LLTX
drivers (except loopback which has not "queue" per se so doesn't need
this stuff).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-23 4:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-17 21:57 LLTX and netif_stop_queue Roland Dreier
2004-12-18 5:44 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-18 15:35 ` Roland Dreier
2004-12-18 17:58 ` Roland Dreier
2004-12-18 18:26 ` Roland Dreier
2004-12-19 19:33 ` jamal
2004-12-19 19:31 ` jamal
2004-12-19 19:54 ` jamal
2004-12-19 20:02 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2004-12-19 22:35 ` Roland Dreier
2004-12-19 23:06 ` jamal
2004-12-19 23:16 ` Roland Dreier
2004-12-22 18:49 ` Eric Lemoine
2004-12-23 4:29 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-12-23 4:38 ` Roland Dreier
2004-12-23 9:10 ` Eric Lemoine
2004-12-23 16:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-23 18:11 ` Eric Lemoine
2004-12-24 16:10 ` Eric Lemoine
2004-12-28 13:31 ` jamal
2005-01-02 23:30 ` Eric Lemoine
2005-01-03 7:41 ` Eric Lemoine
2005-01-03 15:04 ` jamal
2005-01-03 15:48 ` Eric Lemoine
2005-01-03 15:57 ` Roland Dreier
2005-01-03 16:41 ` Eric Lemoine
2005-01-03 16:54 ` Roland Dreier
2005-01-03 17:07 ` Eric Lemoine
2005-01-03 17:12 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-04 4:18 ` jamal
2005-01-19 22:47 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-19 23:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-19 23:41 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-20 0:02 ` [openib-general] " Jeff Garzik
2005-01-20 0:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-20 0:47 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-20 0:47 ` Francois Romieu
2005-01-20 0:52 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-20 1:17 ` Francois Romieu
2005-01-20 0:46 ` [PATCH]: was " David S. Miller
2005-01-20 3:14 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-20 7:05 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-20 3:43 ` Roland Dreier
2005-01-20 7:05 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-20 13:51 ` Tommy Christensen
2005-01-20 21:34 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-20 21:56 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-21 1:01 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-22 3:17 ` Roland Dreier
2005-01-22 3:53 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-20 21:41 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-20 16:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-21 10:54 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-01-26 6:27 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-26 13:25 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-01-27 6:32 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-27 7:16 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-27 7:22 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-27 8:26 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-20 19:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-20 4:01 ` jamal
2005-01-20 5:18 ` David S. Miller
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