On Wed, 2007-29-08 at 18:32 +0200, Robert Olsson wrote: > Yes it's synchronization issue... the test is over and we have sent > all pkts to the device but pktgen cannot free the skb for it still > has refcounts.
Ok, right. I was confusing it with another issue where pktgen could send a lot of packets without waiting for them to be freed; there are some drivers (10G) which may hold onto 8K skbs. A gazillion ooms start spewing ;-> My thinking in resolving that was to do something like waht sockets do and charge pktgen so it doesnt have too many outstanding packets in flight. > IMO must drivers have provisions to handle situation like. Mandeep was saying he found less than a handful that didnt conform. > I'll > guess we can discuss last-resort timer if it should be us, ms > or possibly seconds but shouldn't need ping to make this happen. > If so we probably have a ICMP packet sitting there waiting instead. I think as long as it doesnt affect throughput calculation (it just adds to idle time) its fine. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
