netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 4/9] bgmac: simplify rx DMA error handling

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Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2015 02:05:18 +0200
From:	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, romieu@...zoreil.com
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, zajec5@...il.com, hauke@...ke-m.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/9] bgmac: simplify rx DMA error handling

On 2015-04-14 02:04, David Miller wrote:
> From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 01:20:40 +0200
> 
>> Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org> :
>>> Unmap the DMA buffer before checking it. If an error occurs, free the
>>> buffer and allocate a new one. If allocation or mapping fails, retry as
>>> long as there is NAPI poll budget left (count every attempt instead of
>>> every frame).
>> 
>> The driver is not supposed to use the NAPI budget this way.
>> 
>> If the driver can't reserve resources to handle the packet, it should
>> drop the data, keep everything in place for the hardware and move to the
>> next slot.
> 
> +1
Fixed in v6.

- Felix
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