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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio: fix rx ring descriptor starvation
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:20:22 +0100
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Any review, please?

2015-11-13 09:30, Tom Kiely:
> If all rx descriptors are processed while transient
> mbuf exhaustion is present, the rx ring ends up with
> no available descriptors. Thus no packets are received
> on that ring. Since descriptor refill is performed post
> rx descriptor processing, in this case no refill is
> ever subsequently performed resulting in permanent rx
> traffic drop.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Kiely <tkiely@brocade.com>