Don Cohen wrote:
> In part I agree. I would have preferred to make my change in one
> place instead of one driver at a time. On the other hand, it seems to
> me that some of these details are already spread around all the
> drivers. For instance, why does every driver have to call
> eth_type_trans? Could that be delayed for netif_rx ?
>
> I do think it's reasonable for a driver to test whether the upper
> layers are ready to process another packet. I suggest that this
> test be encapsulated into a new function that can be changed at the
> cost of only recompiling all the drivers.
Why not NAPI? That is the existing mechanism provided to let the upper
layer feedback to the low-level driver system congestion information.
Jeff
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