Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.4: coalescing related pauses?

[David Miller]

From: Lino Sanfilippo <lsanfil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 14:07:51 +0100

> Calling skb_orphan() in the xmit handler made this issue disappear.

This is not the way to handle this problem.

The solution is to free the SKBs in a timely manner after the
chip has transmitted the frame.