I know that there have been a lot of discussions about fixing how packets are handed off to ifnets due to the current methods being extremely race-prone. Has there been any consensus on how the problem is going to be solved?
In my particular case, I've seen an if_bridge interface whose if_snd queue is full, and once an ifnet reaches that point it will never transmit anything ever again unless its driver manually calls the start method somehow. As a short-term fix I'm temped to call to if_start in IFQ_HANDOFF_ADJ even if IFQ_ENQUEUE returns an error, to ensure that the queue will be drained eventually, but I'm wondering if people are actively working on longer-term fixes. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
