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Date:	Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:48:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Cc:	raghuram.kothakota@...cle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] sunvnet: Avoid sending superfluous LDC
 messages.

From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:21:05 -0400

> @@ -380,11 +390,14 @@ static int vnet_walk_rx(struct vnet_port *port, struct vio_dring_state *dr,
>  	viodbg(DATA, "vnet_walk_rx start[%08x] end[%08x]\n", start, end);
>  
>  	while (start != end) {
> -		int ack = 0, err = vnet_walk_rx_one(port, dr, start, &ack);
> +		int retries;
> +		int ack = 0, err;
> +
> +		retries = 0;
> +again:
> +		err = vnet_walk_rx_one(port, dr, start, &ack);
>  		if (err == -ECONNRESET)
>  			return err;
> -		if (err != 0)
> -			break;
>  		if (ack_start == -1)
>  			ack_start = start;
>  		ack_end = start;

You're adding a function local label not even used by this patch.

Please be more careful with your patch submissions, I can see here
that you're bleeding patch #2 (which I disagree with) into this one
and you're not testing your changes individually as you should.
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