[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 2/3][NET_BATCH] net core use batching
    jamal 
    hadi at cyberus.ca
       
    Mon Oct  1 06:21:40 PDT 2007
    
    
  
On Mon, 2007-01-10 at 12:42 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> jamal wrote:
> > +	while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(skbs)) != NULL)
> > +		q->ops->requeue(skb, q);
> 
> 
> ->requeue queues at the head, so this looks like it would reverse
> the order of the skbs.
Excellent catch!  thanks; i will fix.
As a side note: Any batching driver should _never_ have to requeue; if
it does it is buggy. And the non-batching ones if they ever requeue will
be a single packet, so not much reordering.
Thanks again Patrick.
cheers,
jamal
    
    
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