From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:08:40 -0400
> 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. You could implement this quite simply using skb->destructor. It will add some atomics, so on weaker pktgen source systems it might decrease the generators rate. - 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
