* jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-06-30 13:19 > On Fri, 2006-30-06 at 18:32 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > > * jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-06-30 10:35 > > > > Did you actually try to run this before you reached this conclusion? > > > > I did, fortunately some other bug prevents this from happening, > > packets are simply dropped somewhere. > > > > It is not a bug, Thomas! I am getting a little frustrated now. > The packets will be dropped because we set the at field to zero which is > invalid. That is done on purpose. It is only meaningful for ifb. The > challenge is much bigger than it appears. You could end up deadlocking > on the tx lock. So this was the choice i had to make.
Please explain, tc_verd is reset in the tasklet after dequeueing and set again in dev_queue_xmit(). ifb_xmit will always see a valid tc_verd at egress. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
