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From: Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, Lars Persson <larper@axis.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: sched: do not requeue a NULL skb
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:17:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570BC024.1070504@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1460384551.6473.551.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>



On 04/11/2016 04:22 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 15:38 +0200, Lars Persson wrote:
>
>> I though it would be prudent because the queue can be non-empty even for
>> the case of skb=NULL. So should it be there in this patch, another patch
>> or not at all ?
>
> Then maybe change return code ?
>
> It seems strange that a validate_xmit_skb_list() failure stops the
> __qdisc_run() loop but schedules another round.
>
>

It was suggested by Cong Wang to return 0 in order to stop the loop. Do 
you guys agree that the loop should be stopped for such failures ? Then 
I will put the schedule call inside the if as you proposed earlier.

- Lars

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-11 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-11  6:24 [PATCH net v2] net: sched: do not requeue a NULL skb Lars Persson
2016-04-11 13:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-11 13:38   ` Lars Persson
2016-04-11 14:22     ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-11 15:17       ` Lars Persson [this message]
2016-04-11 15:52         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-11 18:02           ` Cong Wang
2016-04-11 18:26             ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-11 18:30               ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-11 23:19                 ` Cong Wang
2016-04-11 23:48                   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-11 17:53         ` Cong Wang

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