netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: use hardware buffer pool to allocate skb

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Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:33:23 +0200
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Pan Jiafei <Jiafei.Pan@...escale.com>
Cc:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <jkosina@...e.cz>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<LeoLi@...escale.com>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: use hardware buffer pool to allocate skb

Since an skb can sit forever in an application queue, you have created
an easy way to livelock the system when enough skb's are waiting to be
read.

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