On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:33:43 am Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:46:53AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > It makes more sense to have the device increment tx_droppped, > > and return NETDEV_TX_OK. Skip the message (or make it a pr_debug()). > > Network devices do not guarantee packet delivery, and if out of > > resources then holding more data in the > > queue is going to hurt not help the situation. Yes, actually oom should be a ratelimited message and TX_OK, the other case is a "should never happen" logic bug which warrants an error and I don't care what it returns (whatever's easiest). Please fix both at once since you're touching it. Thanks, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
