[Click] Blocking queue element?

[Charles Reis]

Sounds great!  (I might hack into FromHost a bit in the mean time, as 
well...)

Thanks,
Charlie


Eddie Kohler wrote:

> John Bicket wrote:
> 
>> It would get blocked - linux will buffer a small number of
>> packets per socket before blocking it (even if it's not tcp), and this 
>> will fill up if a device queue is marked as busy.  This is why you 
>> can't really do udp tests at userlevel when using fromhost 
>> configurations - you end up sending so many packets, and they all get 
>> dropped when they hit click's queue.
>>
>> --john
> 
> 
> A ha.  It sounds like FromHost should reflect Queue length.  One more 
> thing to do (after ToHost is fixed!).
> 
> Eddie
>