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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 38102] New: BUG kmalloc-2048: Poison
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Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:21:03 +0200
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Le mardi 05 juillet 2011 =C3=A0 05:44 +0200, Eric Dumazet a =C3=A9crit =
:

> Maybe we should do instead a fast dequeue of packets (recycling them
> instead of pushing them to upper stack) in case too many packets are
> ready to be delivered, and always make sure NIC has a reserve of
> available buffers for DMA accesses, before it can assert ISTAT_RFO
>=20
>=20

Another way would be to add Explicit Congestion Notification when too
many packets are received in a burst, but unfortunately not enough TCP
flows are ECN ready :)