From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] qdisc bulk dequeuing and utilizing delayed tailptr updates Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:47:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20140903144709.7a658763@redhat.com> References: <20140902143254.1918.8419.stgit@dragon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , Linux Netdev List , Florian Westphal , Hannes Frederic Sowa , Daniel Borkmann , brouer@redhat.com To: Tom Herbert Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49621 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932342AbaICMr2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2014 08:47:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 11:04:06 -0700 Tom Herbert wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer > wrote: > > This patchset uses DaveM's recent API changes to dev_hard_start_xmit(), > > from the qdisc layer, to implement dequeue bulking. > > > > Open questions: > > > > - For now set bulk limit to 8 packets, don't want to stress the driver > > avail ring_buffer space. > > > Please get limit from BQL also, see: > [PATCH net-next] net: Functions to report space available in device TX queues Thank you Tom. I will include that patch in my stack (keeping you as author), and use the functions you are proposing. -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer