From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: shane@hathawaymix.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000 rx buffer allocation
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:18:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040826181843.342da7a3.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408261727170.9545@orangutan.jungle>
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:35:38 -0600 (MDT)
shane@hathawaymix.org wrote:
> Independently of my patch, I'm a little concerned about what will happen
> if the driver runs out of rx buffers. Ideally, it will just drop packets,
> but I wonder if the code will panic instead.
It is a good question. Some chips are known to hang when
the rx buffer has no entries in it and a packet arrives.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-27 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-26 23:35 [PATCH] e1000 rx buffer allocation shane
2004-08-27 1:18 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-27 1:18 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-27 18:36 ` Chris Leech
2004-08-27 19:36 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-28 2:27 ` Shane Hathaway
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