On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:01:06PM +0200, frank.blaschka@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Qeth HiperSockets support now retries sending of packets when the
> IBM System z signals a temporary resource shortage (e.g. target
> buffer full). The packet is enqueued into the device queue.
> After 3 times of unsuccessful send the packet is dropped.
What is the reason for that? How large is the timeout for each retry?
Usually the upper layers should already handle dropped packages fine and
adding another retry below can produce retry multiplication.
> @@ -3178,6 +3203,25 @@ int qeth_do_send_packet_fast(struct qeth
> atomic_set(&queue->state, QETH_OUT_Q_UNLOCKED);
> qeth_fill_buffer(queue, buffer, skb, hdr, offset, hd_len);
> qeth_flush_buffers(queue, index, 1);
> + if (queue->sync_iqdio_error == 2) {
Is this a magic constant?
Bastian
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