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From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, jhs@mojatatu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: pktgen: support injecting packets for qdisc testing
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 13:55:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56903041.8090900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452288964.8255.234.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 16-01-08 01:36 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 07:38 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
> 
>> Also I'll respin this with a change so xmit_{drop|cn|policed} are not
>> counted as tx_bytes and pkts sent (idea from Jamal). However I won't
>> abort the burst because I do like this stressing the entry point of my
>> qdisc.
> 
> This reminds me that bonding/team drivers always return NETDEV_TX_OK
> status, even if the chosen slave could not queue or send the packet.
> 
> 
> 

hmm this could potentially break protocols that are handling the
return codes like fcoe which puts a packet back on its queue if it
can't be sent.

.John

      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-08 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-08  2:09 [PATCH] net: pktgen: support injecting packets for qdisc testing John Fastabend
2016-01-08  2:28 ` John Fastabend
2016-01-08 14:38   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-01-08 15:24     ` John Fastabend
2016-01-09  0:41       ` John Fastabend
2016-01-10 14:09       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-01-11  5:21         ` John Fastabend
2016-01-08 15:28 ` John Fastabend
2016-01-08 15:38   ` John Fastabend
2016-01-08 21:36     ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-08 21:55       ` John Fastabend [this message]

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