Re: severe regression in alx ethernet driver

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Nov 25 2015 - 23:10:23 EST


From: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:47:08 +0100

> Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx> :
> [...]
>> 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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