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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 15:23:52 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: yanjun.zhu@...cle.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] forcedeth: recv cache support From: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@...cle.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 02:19:26 -0400 > This recv cache is to make NIC work steadily when the system memory is > not enough. The system is supposed to hold onto enough atomic memory to absorb all reasonable situations like this. If anything a solution to this problem belongs generically somewhere, not in a driver. And furthermore looping over an allocation attempt with a delay is strongly discouraged.
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