From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David L Stevens 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 Message-ID: <5429C8E9.2070607@oracle.com> References: <5429B8E2.40204@oracle.com> <20140929.162950.1960056644564225055.davem@davemloft.net> <5429C498.1000705@oracle.com> <20140929.165440.1575595209745066192.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com, raghuram.kothakota@oracle.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:46407 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751742AbaI2VCA (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:02:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140929.165440.1575595209745066192.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/29/2014 04:54 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: David L Stevens >> 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