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Re: Flush Tx skbs after link down: msg#00133

Subject: Re: Flush Tx skbs after link down
> I think this can't be achieved without driver support, simply because
> pending DMA transfers must be removed before freeing the skbs, and this
> is specific. So the driver model needs to be extended to have a reset

PS: We also need to avoid that new skbs are enqueued while the link is
down without making the critical code path in dev_queue_xmit() much
longer. Right now, I don't have any ideas beyond a proof of concept for
this part.

Stefan





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