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From: David L Stevens <david.stevens@oracle.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com,
	raghuram.kothakota@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv8 net-next 2/4] sunvnet: make transmit path zero-copy in the kernel
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:02:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5429C8E9.2070607@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140929.165440.1575595209745066192.davem@davemloft.net>



On 09/29/2014 04:54 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: David L Stevens <david.stevens@oracle.com>

>> For example, I could leave the "normal" path like this and just start/mod
>> a timer to do it after 1 sec if we haven't done it through start_xmit. Do
>> you think that's sufficiently short?
> 
> To be honest I'm not %100 sure.

Since it won't actually fire when the network is loaded, maybe a
shorter timer won't hurt. I'll try it out.

						+-DLS

      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-29 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-29 19:54 [PATCHv8 net-next 2/4] sunvnet: make transmit path zero-copy in the kernel David L Stevens
2014-09-29 20:29 ` David Miller
2014-09-29 20:44   ` David L Stevens
2014-09-29 20:54     ` David Miller
2014-09-29 21:02       ` David L Stevens [this message]

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