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SubjectRe: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Rework the fix for Rx stall during OOM and network stress
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On 02/07/2017 01:59 PM, Vineeth Remanan Pillai wrote:
> The commit 90c311b0eeea ("xen-netfront: Fix Rx stall during network
> stress and OOM") caused the refill timer to be triggerred almost on
> all invocations of xennet_alloc_rx_buffers for certain workloads.
> This reworks the fix by reverting to the old behaviour and taking into
> consideration the skb allocation failure. Refill timer is now triggered
> on insufficient requests or skb allocation failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vineethp@amazon.com>
> Fixes: 90c311b0eeea (xen-netfront: Fix Rx stall during network stress and OOM)
> Reported-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

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