netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] xen-netback: fix multiple extra info handling

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Message-Id: <20160313.220816.289345459908765527.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:08:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.durrant@...rix.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] xen-netback: fix multiple extra info
 handling

From: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:30:25 +0000

> If a frontend passes multiple extra info fragments to netback on the guest
> transmit side, because xen-netback does not account for this properly, only
> a single ack response will be sent. This will eventually cause processing
> of the shared ring to wedge.
> 
> This series re-imports the canonical netif.h from Xen, where the ring
> protocol documentation has been updated, fixes this issue in xen-netback
> and also adds a patch to reduce log spam.

Series applied, thanks Paul.