On Wed, 12 May 2004, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > I believe that throttling is achieved by netif_stop_queue > when no more hardware buffers are available. > > But netif_start_queue is only called on the open driver method. > > When is the transmition restarted? By the driver calling netif_wake_queue() whenever there is buffer space availabe. There is no need to first verify that the queue is stopped as this is explicitly verified by netif_wake_queue(). Regards Henrik - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
