From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: soft-lockups in sunvnet
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:47:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140808204755.GB24555@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140808.114601.1454008888717150216.davem@davemloft.net>
On (08/08/14 12:59), David Miller wrote:
>
> This only works because we free the packet in the ->ndo_start_xmit()
> method. If we didn't do that, and we freed it up at ACK time, we'd
> need to force the ACKs in order to guarentee that we release the SKB
> in a finite amount of time.
>
I see. I missed that subtlety. I'll make a note in the comments for
my proposed change, in case this piece of code changes in the future.
--Sowmini
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-08 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-08 18:46 soft-lockups in sunvnet David Miller
2014-08-08 18:55 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-08-08 19:59 ` David Miller
2014-08-08 20:47 ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2014-08-10 19:56 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-08-11 20:58 ` David Miller
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