netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] forcedeth: recv cache support

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Date:   Tue, 9 Jul 2019 16:28:56 +0800
From:   Yanjun Zhu <yanjun.zhu@...cle.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] forcedeth: recv cache support


On 2019/7/9 6:23, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions. Now a user is testing this patch in 
LAB and production hosts.

After this patch can pass tests, I will send V2 based on your suggestions.

Thanks,

Zhu Yanjun