From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262161AbVHFH6b (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Aug 2005 03:58:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261259AbVHFH63 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Aug 2005 03:58:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:53727 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262356AbVHFH6A (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Aug 2005 03:58:00 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:58:27 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Matt Mackall , "David S. Miller" , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John B?ckstrand Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll can lock up on low memory. Message-ID: <20050806075827.GA6735@elte.hu> References: <20050805135551.GQ8266@wotan.suse.de> <1123251013.18332.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050805141426.GU8266@wotan.suse.de> <1123252591.18332.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050805200156.GF7425@waste.org> <1123275420.18332.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050805212808.GV8074@waste.org> <1123287835.18332.110.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050806015310.GA8074@waste.org> <1123295548.18332.126.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1123295548.18332.126.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org btw., the current NR_SKBS 32 in netpoll.c seems quite low, especially e1000 can have a whole lot more skbs queued at once. Might be more robust to increase it to 128 or 256? Ingo