From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269802AbUH0BZe (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:25:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269794AbUH0BYB (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:24:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:19904 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269908AbUH0BSz (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:18:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:18:43 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: shane@hathawaymix.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000 rx buffer allocation Message-Id: <20040826181843.342da7a3.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.