netdev - Re: [PATCH net] xen-netback: don't move event pointer in TX credit timeout callback

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Date:	Thu, 15 May 2014 12:53:17 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
CC:	<xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<jajcus@...cus.net>, "Paul Durrant" <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] xen-netback: don't move event pointer in TX credit
 timeout callback

On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 12:24 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> ... otherwise the frontend will try to send TX event all the time, even
> if no progress can be made. The pointer should only be advanced by the
> routine that actually processes the ring.

Please can you mention that this routing is xenvif_poll.

> Reported-by: Jacek Konieczny <jajcus@...cus.net>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>

Other than that small nit:
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>

Thanks!


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