[ofa-general] Question on IPoIB start xmit

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Jul 30 13:26:44 PDT 2007


 > Pathlookup skb2, Mcast send skb5, Unicast arp send8, Good skb1, Good skb3,
 >       Good skb4, Good skb6, Good skb7, Good skb9
 > 
 > Or is there any requirement or logic that will break unless skbs are sent
 > in the same order
 > that it was received from ULP ?

Just the requirement that the low-level driver not gratuitously
reorder skbs within a flow.  Some small amount of reordering probably
acceptable if it helps performance a lot.



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