reply to Theo's questions
From: Zijin Tao
Date: Tue Oct 27 2026 - 03:27:32 EST
Hi Theo:
Sorry for having missed important things.
I would like to append some explanations here.
Thanks,
Zijin Tao
At 2026-10-14 01:55:03, "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hello Zijin,
>
> - I'll stop replying inline because you seem to be having issues with
> your mailer. Please fix it to ease the discussion.
>
> See here how your email looks:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/63731290.3f0c.1a1198fe993.Coremail.taozj888@xxxxxxx/
>
> - Your V4 commit message says "Fixes: 89e5785fc8a6" but that is wrong
> with the current patch, it shold use 4df95131ea80. I don't
> understand why you are talking about the changelog at the same time,
> this is unrelated.
>
Yes, I made a mistake in V4 commit message with an oversight, it should use 4df95131ea80, so
I just revised it to 4df95131ea80 in the V5 patch, and I will use it in possible later patches.
> - You skipped over explaining why your dropped the start_xmit diff.
>
>I'll have to stop reviewing if you skip over parts of the messages.
>I gave you a TLDR and you skipped over the first bulletpoint.
>
Sorry, I forgot to make an explanation here, maybe due to an omission.
Now I would like to amend it:
Actually when I started to rate limit the error messages in the data path, I saw
the netdev_err message print in both the gem_rx_refill and at91ether_start_xmit,
and I knew they are also in the data path.
But for the following reasons I just omitted adding rate limits for them:
1. For the netdev_err in the gem_rx_refill, there is a "unlikely(!skb)" to check if
the skb is NULL which is a rare case, so I think it's not so needed to add a
rate limit here;
2. For the netdev_err in the at91ether_start_xmit, I think it belongs to another vendor
which I am not familiar with, and I didn't know how popular it was used, even I was not authorized to
change it with my will also.
If you think it's better or needed to add a rate limit for them, I would like to do it in later possible
patches.
Would you please give your opinion here?
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Théo Lebrun, Bootlin
>Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
>https://bootlin.com
>
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>Hello Zijin,
>
> - I'll stop replying inline because you seem to be having issues with
> your mailer. Please fix it to ease the discussion.
>
> See here how your email looks:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/63731290.3f0c.1a1198fe993.Coremail.taozj888@xxxxxxx/
>
> - Your V4 commit message says "Fixes: 89e5785fc8a6" but that is wrong
> with the current patch, it shold use 4df95131ea80. I don't
> understand why you are talking about the changelog at the same time,
> this is unrelated.
>
> - You skipped over explaining why your dropped the start_xmit diff.
>
>I'll have to stop reviewing if you skip over parts of the messages.
>I gave you a TLDR and you skipped over the first bulletpoint.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Théo Lebrun, Bootlin
>Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
>https://bootlin.com