From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/14] pktgen: reorganize transmit loop
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:52:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A975480.3080507@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090827235705.740919364@vyatta.com>
+ default: /* Drivers are not supposed to return other values! */
+ if (net_ratelimit())
+ pr_info("pktgen: %s xmit error: %d\n",
+ odev->name, ret);
pkt_dev->errors++;
I believe this is faulty. Things like vlans can send pkts to qdiscs
of the underlying device and those can return other values.
Patric McHardy put in some patches recently to achieve this in a more
uniform manner:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/28340/
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-27 23:55 [PATCH 00/14] pktgen update for net-next (2.6.32) Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 01/14] pktgen: minor cleanup Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 02/14] pktgen: change inlining Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 03/14] pktgen: mark read-only/mostly variables Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 04/14] pktgen: stop_device cleanup Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 05/14] pktgen: xmit logic reorganization Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 06/14] pktgen: cleanup clone count test Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 07/14] pktgen: use netdev_alloc_skb Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 08/14] pktgen: reorganize transmit loop Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-28 3:52 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2009-08-28 5:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-28 16:01 ` Ben Greear
2009-08-29 6:04 ` David Miller
2009-09-01 21:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-09-02 13:06 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 09/14] pktgen: avoid calling gettimeofday Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 10/14] pktgen: convert to use ktime_t Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 11/14] pktgen: spin using hrtimer Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 12/14] pktgen: use common idle routine Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 13/14] pktgen: cleanup checkpatch warnings Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 14/14] pktgen: increase version Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-29 6:33 ` [PATCH 00/14] pktgen update for net-next (2.6.32) David Miller
2009-08-29 6:42 ` David Miller
2009-09-08 11:52 ` robert
2009-09-08 12:21 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2009-09-08 15:41 ` robert
2009-09-09 7:53 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2009-09-11 14:29 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
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