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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: calxedaxgmac: fix rx ring handling when OOM
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:29:58 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:32:44 -0500

> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
> 
> If skb allocation for the rx ring fails repeatedly, we can reach a point
> were the ring is empty. In this condition, the driver is out of sync with
> the h/w. While this has always been possible, the removal of the skb
> recycling seems to have made triggering this problem easier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>

Applied.