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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:10:08 -0500 (EST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: romieu@...zoreil.com Cc: jarod@...hat.com, ldap.tester@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: severe regression in alx ethernet driver From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:47:08 +0100 > Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com> : > [...] >> They do at least have a signed-off-by in the patches attached to the bug, >> so I'm working on touching up the descriptions and formatting, regression >> testing them on my laptop that has an alx-driven E2200 in it (which isn't >> affected by this bug), and then I can ship them up for proper review. > > You can forget the last refill-me-harder patch and save a roundtrip. > The driver should 1) prohibit holes in its receive ring, 2) allocate before > pushing data up in the stack and 3) drop packets when it can't allocate a > fresh buffer. +1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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