From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: romieu@fr.zoreil.com
Cc: jarod@redhat.com, ldap.tester@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: severe regression in alx ethernet driver
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:10:08 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151125.231008.347752016459161329.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151125224708.GA1640@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-26 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-14 21:47 Ldap Tester
2015-11-23 14:00 ` Ldap Tester
2015-11-23 16:15 ` David Miller
2015-11-23 16:16 ` David Miller
2015-11-24 16:07 ` Jarod Wilson
2015-11-25 22:47 ` Francois Romieu
2015-11-26 4:10 ` David Miller [this message]
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