On Tue, 2007-28-08 at 17:06 -0700, David Miller wrote: > Devices need to free packets in a deterministic amount of time, no > matter what.
If i understood the driver pointed to - "finite amount of time" spec is still met. Seems some interupt is generated (TX_IDLE) when the tx path gets idle and this will kick the tx cleanup. Mandeep, correct me if i am wrong. If my statement is correct, i wouldnt call this a driver bug;-> Robert, I think i asked you this same question on that piece of code once - and iirc you said its because you had to synchronise and make sure the packet made it to the wire. In this scenario, the packet has made it to the wire - just hasnt been freed. Note that when teaching pktgen to do batching, i removed that logic and things work fine. cheers, jamal - 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
