netdev - Re: [PATCH net] gve: Fix case where desc_cnt and data

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Date:   Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:19:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     csully@...gle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sagis@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] gve: Fix case where desc_cnt and data_cnt can get
 out of sync

From: Catherine Sullivan <csully@...gle.com>
Date: Thu,  1 Aug 2019 16:07:31 -0700

> desc_cnt and data_cnt should always be equal. In the case of a dropped
> packet desc_cnt was still getting updated (correctly), data_cnt
> was not. To eliminate this bug and prevent it from recurring this
> patch combines them into one ring level cnt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <csully@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@...gle.com>

Applied.