Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:10:08 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: severe regression in alx ethernet driver | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:47:08 +0100
> 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.
+1
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