netdev - Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code

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Message-ID: <20080508130846.GA3769@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 8 May 2008 21:08:46 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@...el.com>,
	Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...il.com>,
	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>,
	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:00:00PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
>
> Ok, what about DMA error. kmalloc error or something else?
> ring overflow was a bad example, of course.

If your NIC gets DMA errors all the time then I suggest you
invest in some new hardware.  Ditto if you fail to kmalloc all
the time.

If they're rare as they should be then dropping the packet is
perfectly reasonable.

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