netdev - Handling receive packets with limited buffer space

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Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:41:18 -0700
From:	Amit Uttamchandani <amit.uttam@...il.com>
To:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Handling receive packets with limited buffer space

In my modified ethoc.c driver, I am using only one receive buffer
descriptor due to limited space. This works fairly well for small
packets (arp, pings, etc.).

However, doing a 'wget' and downloading a file causes lots of drops and
thus results in a terminated connection.

How do I go about dealing with this? I tried stopping the queue
(netif_stop_queue) while I'm processing the rx skb and then resuming it
once I'm done, but this did not seem to help.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks for any help.
Amit
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