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On Thursday 01 May 2008 00:31:46 Mark McLoughlin wrote: > virtio_net currently only frees old transmit skbs just > before queueing new ones. If the queue is full, it then > enables interrupts and waits for notification that more > work has been performed. Hi Mark, This patch is fine, but it's better to do it from skb_xmit_done(). Of course, this is usually called from an

On Thursday 01 May 2008 00:31:46 Mark McLoughlin wrote: > virtio_net currently only frees old transmit skbs just > before queueing new ones. If the queue is full, it then > enables interrupts and waits for notification that more > work has been performed. Hi Mark, This patch is fine, but it's better to do it from skb_xmit_done(). Of course, this is usually called from an

If we fail to transmit a packet, we assume the queue is full and put the skb into last_xmit_skb. However, if more space frees up before we xmit it, we loop, and the result can be transmitting the same skb twice. Fix is simple: set skb to NULL if we've used it in some way, and check before sending. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c |

If we fail to transmit a packet, we assume the queue is full and put the skb into last_xmit_skb. However, if more space frees up before we xmit it, we loop, and the result can be transmitting the same skb twice. Fix is simple: set skb to NULL if we've used it in some way, and check before sending. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c |