Re: [PATCH] net: orphan queued skbs if device tx can stall

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 11:34:02AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
> Puzzled. This patch orphans skbs only if the destination device sets
> IFF_TX_CAN_STALL.  Since the physical NIC doesn't stall forever it never
> sets this flag.
> 
> So it seems that this patch should not affect the configuration
> you describe at all.
> 
> Could you please clarify? What did I miss?

Oops, you're right.  Somehow I was thinking you were patching
virtio-net instead of tun.

Cheers,
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