netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio_net: do not reschedule rx refill forever

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Date:	Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:29:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mst@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio_net: do not reschedule rx refill forever

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:32:55 +1000

> From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
> 
> We currently fill all of RX ring, then add_buf
> returns ENOSPC, which gets mis-detected as an out of
> memory condition and causes us to reschedule the work,
> and so on forever. Fix this by oom = err == -ENOMEM;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> Cc: stable@...nel.org # .34.x

Applied.
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