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Re: fealnx oopses (with [PATCH])

To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: fealnx oopses (with [PATCH])
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:23:25 +0200
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andreas Henriksson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <406B2FB5.9080302@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:53:09PM -0500
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> :
> FYI to those involved, I sent the TX patch upstream.
> 
> When there is a minimal RX patch people are happy with, let me know... 
> further changes are fine, but I would like to split up the changes as 
> much as is reasonable.

Attached is the patch tested by Andreas which fixes single allocation
failures but will not protect against excessive work in irq handler nor
complete depletion of the Rx ring.

It applies on top of the Tx patch (as seen on bk-commit).

Earth-shattering, anyone ?

--
Ueimor

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