From: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:49:05 +0000

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Miller [mailto:da...@davemloft.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 1:20 PM
>> To: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
>> Cc: eric.duma...@gmail.com; KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>;
>> eduma...@google.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER if HYPERV_NET
>> is enabled
>> 
>> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
>> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:34:47 +0000
>> 
>> > But we still keep this busy return in our code, just for "weird corner 
>> > cases".
>> 
>> The queue_stopped condition must be precise.
> 
> The only case we return NETDEV_TX_BUSY is when the outgoing ring buffer is 
> full, 
> which almost never happens because we stop the xmit queue if ring is <10% 
> available.

I don't think you understand.

You must perform the queue stop operation such that it is impossible for your
->ndo_start_xmit() method to be invoked in a way such that you cannot transmit
the SKB given to you immediately.

It's quite tiring to keep trying to explain this over and over repeatedly.
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