Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 2014 13:39:08 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net 1/2] macvlan: forbid L2 fowarding offload for macvtap |
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On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:55:07 +0800 Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
> What if use do want a qdisc and want to change the its queue length for > tun/macvlan? And the the name tx_queue_length is misleading. For tun it > may make sense since it was used in transmission path. For macvtap it > was not. So maybe what we need is just a new ioctl for both tun/macvtap > and a new feature flag. If user create the device with new feature flag, > the socket receive queue length could be changed by ioctl instead of > dev->tx_queue_length. If not, the old behaviour could be kept.
The overloading of tx_queue_len in macvtap was the original design mistake. Can't this just be undone and expose rx_queue_len as sysfs attribute?
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