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Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:20:12 +0000 From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org To: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@...ibm.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, bjking1@...ux.ibm.com, haren@...ux.ibm.com, nnac123@...ux.ibm.com, mmc@...ux.ibm.com, ricklind@...ux.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] ibmvnic: Properly dispose of all skbs during a failover. Hello: This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master) by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>: On Sat, 2 Jul 2022 03:37:12 -0700 you wrote: > During a reset, there may have been transmits in flight that are no > longer valid and cannot be fulfilled. Resetting and clearing the > queues is insufficient; each skb also needs to be explicitly freed > so that upper levels are not left waiting for confirmation of a > transmit that will never happen. If this happens frequently enough, > the apparent backlog will cause TCP to begin "congestion control" > unnecessarily, culminating in permanently decreased throughput. > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - [net,v2] ibmvnic: Properly dispose of all skbs during a failover. https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/1b18f09d31cf You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html
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