I played with this idea too a long time ago, but I don't think this sort of naive implementation is acceptable. Having packets that take a potentially unbounded amount of time before the send is completed and the skb is freed just causes too many problems -- for example the ping failures that you noted.
Unless you can come up with a way that makes sure that all skbs are completed even in low-traffic situations, I don't think this is mergeable -- it's just too much of a usability nightmare to have a flag that is essentially "break some workloads in a mysterious way to make some benchmarks run a little faster." - R. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
