netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 00/46] Clean up RX copybreak and DMA handling

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:11:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/46] Clean up RX copybreak and DMA handling

From: Micha┅ Miros┅aw <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:47:23 +0200

> Catch 22: The chips are not tested because they have always free buffers,
> they are provided with endless rx buffers because they are not being
> tested. I'd rather test them well rather than workaround a phantom issue.
> Tripping on empty free rx buffer ring is still possible even with scheme
> #1 (eg. with lots of NICs receiving heavy traffic) --- just harder to
> recognise and debug (if it breaks at all) when it happens.

I do not support taking this risk.

Please do not submit patches which move away from the long
standing allocation failure handling scheme.
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