Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: Functions to report space available in device TX queues

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:27:56 -0700 (PDT)

> This patch adds netdev_tx_avail_queue and netdev_avail_queue which are
> used to report number of bytes available in transmit queues per BQL. The
> functions call dql_avail which returns BQL limit minus number of
> inflight bytes. These functions can be called without txlock, for
> instance to ascertain how much data should be dequeued from a qdisc in
> a batch. When called without the tx_lock, the result is technically a
> hint, subsequently when the tx_lock is done for a transmit it is
> possible the availability has changed (for example a transmit
> completion may have freed up more space in the queue or changed the
> limit).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>

Ok this looks fine, but could you please resubmit this alongside
the first use case?

Thanks.