| To: | "Feldman, Scott" <scott.feldman@xxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Cramer, Jeb J" <jeb.j.cramer@xxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: Flush Tx skbs after link down |
| From: | Stefan Rompf <srompf@xxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:57:42 +0100 |
| References: | <C6F5CF431189FA4CBAEC9E7DD5441E01087ADF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <3E252EE9.D8CA8EDC@xxxxxx> |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
> I think this can't be achieved without driver support, simply because > pending DMA transfers must be removed before freeing the skbs, and this > is specific. So the driver model needs to be extended to have a reset PS: We also need to avoid that new skbs are enqueued while the link is down without making the critical code path in dev_queue_xmit() much longer. Right now, I don't have any ideas beyond a proof of concept for this part. Stefan |
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