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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 04:39:58PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 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,

Cool. Want to ack the patch then just to make it clear you are happy?

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