On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 12:18, Matt Mackall wrote:

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:57:57PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:

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Of course the patch is completely ugly and violates any layering
principle one could think of. It was not submitted for inclusion :o)

Sure, but I think we should have a short-term workaround until
a better solution has been invented. Maybe dropping the packets
would be best for now, it only affects printks issued in paths
starting at qdisc_restart (-> hard_start_xmit -> ...). Queueing
the packets might also cause reordering since not all packets
are queued.

When I mentioned queueing, I was thinking of a netpoll-private queue
that would be hooked to a softirq or some such so that it would be
pushed out as soon as possible. Dropping may be the better approach 

I think so - just junk those packets. 

cheers,
jamal