From: Phil Sutter <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:21:35 +0200
> This series serves two purposes: > > On one hand it fixes a quite embarrassing bug around the warning I added for > drivers still setting tx_queue_len = 0 to achieve noqueue operation. It turned > out to be quite useless as due to using alloc_netdev(), many in-kernel drivers > fell into the trap by accident, as well. Instead this place serves pretty well > as a sanitizing point to set IFF_NO_QUEUE for drivers not initializing > tx_queue_len, which in turn allows to drop all special treatment of the latter > being zero since that can not happen anymore without IFF_NO_QUEUE being set. > > On the other hand, it provides a better solution for Eric Dumazet's concern > regarding how to assign noqueue to an interface which does not default to it > already. In order to make this possible, noqueue is being registered so users > can 'tc qd add dev eth0 root noqueue'. In addition, it resolves the ugly > situation of 'tc qd show' not showing noqueue. Finally, the former changes > allow for some code cleanup. Seems reasonable, series applied, thanks Phil. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
