On Mon, 23 May 2011 14:19:00 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I do understand how it seems a waste to leave direct space > in the ring while we might in practice have space > due to indirect. Didn't come up with a nice way to > solve this yet - but 'no worse than now :)' Let's just make it "bool free_old_xmit_skbs(unsigned int max)". max == 2 for the normal xmit path, so we're low latency but we keep ahead on average. max == -1 for the "we're out of capacity, we may have to stop the queue". That keeps it simple and probably the right thing... Thanks, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
