From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ip_gre: lockless xmit
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:21:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100929.012120.260091648.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285748288.2615.15.camel@edumazet-laptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:18:08 +0200
> What is deprecated is to assert NETIF_F_LLTX and yet, use a lock in the
> ndo_xmit() driver method.
Also we've discussed recently to do away with the NETIF_F_LLTX
flag entirely for queue-less devices such as loopback and
sw tunnels.
Then all will be left are the truly "deprecated" cases Eric
mentions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 9:05 [PATCH net-next-2.6] ip_gre: lockless xmit Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 8:10 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2010-09-29 8:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 8:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-29 17:33 ` Jesse Gross
2010-09-29 18:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 19:04 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add a recursion limit in xmit path Eric Dumazet
2010-09-29 20:23 ` David Miller
2010-09-29 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] ip_gre: lockless xmit Jesse Gross
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