[ewg] Re: [PATCH] call skb_orphan() after sending an SKB

[Or Gerlitz]

Eli Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 10:17 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:

> The problem with ttcpv was that it stopped sending packets since it was
> waiting for freeing the memory. The system did not hang, just the
> application (ttcpv) stopped sending. Other applications could continue
> working over the ipoib interface.

What's ttcpv, doing web-search I only find ttcp, so I would be happy to 
get pointer plus what param you were using to see the problem.

>> Also, I see that you have added a call to netif_stop_queue(), is this to
>> solve another problem?

> This was just a whole that I found in code review - when I post a zero
> length packet, I still want this to affect the net queue control.

Why posting a zero len packet is related to the net queue control logic? 
I was thinking it has to do with releasing "unsignaled SKBs"

Or