Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:47:08 +0100 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: severe regression in alx ethernet driver |
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Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> : [...] > They do at least have a signed-off-by in the patches attached to the bug, > so I'm working on touching up the descriptions and formatting, regression > testing them on my laptop that has an alx-driven E2200 in it (which isn't > affected by this bug), and then I can ship them up for proper review.
You can forget the last refill-me-harder patch and save a roundtrip. The driver should 1) prohibit holes in its receive ring, 2) allocate before pushing data up in the stack and 3) drop packets when it can't allocate a fresh buffer.
-- Ueimor
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