netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] hv

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Message-Id: <20171213.155755.1689958321967920282.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:57:55 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        devel@...uxdriverproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] hv_netvsc: minor changes

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:48:34 -0800

> This includes minor cleanup of code in send and receive path and
> also a new statistic to check for allocation failures. This also
> eliminates some of the extra RCU when not needed.
> 
> There is a theoritical bug where buffered data could be blocked
> for longer than necessary if the ring buffer got full. This
> has not been seen in the wild, found by inspection.
> 
> The reference count between net device and internal RNDIS
> is not needed.

Series applied, thanks Stephen.