From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:24:26 -0700
> David Miller wrote: > > From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:49:06 -0700 > > > >> For 'real' hardware, it seems that the netif_stop_queue and > >> netif_wake_queue methods handle stopping and waking the > >> higher level senders, but for virtual devices with no > >> queues, how does this work? > > > > They don't queue, there is nothing to stop or wakeup. > > Ok, so if I have a UDP socket bound to an interface that has > no queue, and yet I see the send portion of the queue being > full in netstat, what does this mean? The physical device sitting behind the virtual one is where queue stop and wakeup operations might be occuring. - 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
