[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/8] gre: Disable tx queue.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Thu Mar 4 20:21:18 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:22:08PM -0500, Jesse Gross wrote:
> > GRE is a software device that processes packets synchronously and
> > doesn't need a queue.  Currently we are using the default for
> > Ethernet devices but that is unnecessary.
>
> This looks like a minor optimization, too, since it seems to simplify
> dev_queue_xmit() by skipping the queuing logic.  Do you want to push
> this one upstream too?
>

Yes, this is generally applicable.
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