Re: fealnx oopses (with [PATCH])

[Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 01:23, Francois Romieu wrote:
> 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 ?

Yes, this thing improved life for me (from oopses
to uninterruptible excessive work in interrupt).
My RX coding was on top of it, so I think this should
be applied.

Jeff?
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vda