On Thursday 01 May 2008 00:31:46 Mark McLoughlin wrote: > virtio_net currently only frees old transmit skbs just > before queueing new ones. If the queue is full, it then > enables interrupts and waits for notification that more > work has been performed. Hi Mark, This patch is fine, but it's better to do it from skb_xmit_done(). Of course, this is usually called from an interrupt handler, so it's not entirely trivial: we can't free the skbs there. A softirq is probably the answer here, but AFAICT that's old fashioned. Not sure what the right way of doing this is now... Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
