On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 01:16:45PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: J> On Monday, September 17, 2012 11:49:59 am Ryan Stone wrote: J> > I know that there have been a lot of discussions about fixing how J> > packets are handed off to ifnets due to the current methods being J> > extremely race-prone. Has there been any consensus on how the problem J> > is going to be solved? J> > J> > In my particular case, I've seen an if_bridge interface whose if_snd J> > queue is full, and once an ifnet reaches that point it will never J> > transmit anything ever again unless its driver manually calls the J> > start method somehow. J> > J> > As a short-term fix I'm temped to call to if_start in IFQ_HANDOFF_ADJ J> > even if IFQ_ENQUEUE returns an error, to ensure that the queue will be J> > drained eventually, but I'm wondering if people are actively working J> > on longer-term fixes. J> J> I think for if_bridge the fix is that it no longer uses if_start. :)
And this is already in head. :) -- Totus tuus, Glebius. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
