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    net: fix unbounded NetQueue · 7d91ddd2
    Luigi Rizzo authored
    
    
    In the current implementation of qemu, running without a network
    backend will cause the queue to grow unbounded when the guest is
    transmitting traffic.
    
    This patch fixes the problem by implementing bounded size NetQueue,
    used with an arbitrary limit of 10000 packets, and dropping packets
    when the queue is full _and_ the sender does not pass a callback.
    
    The second condition makes sure that we never drop packets that
    contains a callback (which would be tricky, because the producer
    expects the callback to be run when all previous packets have been
    consumed; so we cannot run it when the packet is dropped).
    
    If documentation is correct, producers that submit a callback should
    stop sending when their packet is queued, so there is no real risk
    that the queue exceeds the max size by large values.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLuigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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