On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 15:36 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 15:19 +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Malcolm Crossley > [...] > > > From a networking point of view, the backend is a switch. Is it OK to > > > consider the packet to have been transmitted from the guest point of > > > view once the backend is aware of the packet? > > > > > > This would help justify the skb_orphan() in the frontend. > > > > This sounds sensible to me, particularly if virtio_net is already doing it. > > I also find Malcolm's argument above pretty compelling.
Yes, and then you'll have to help the virtio ongoing effort trying to get rid of this skb_orphan() Basically you're adding head of line blocking, as a single flow is able to fill your queue. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
