[Click] Blocking queue element?

[Eddie Kohler]

Please do -- I don't know how long it will take for us to fix this.

Eddie


Charles Reis wrote:
> 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
>>