From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dkravkov@gmail.com
Cc: dmitry@broadcom.com, mschmidt@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
ariele@broadcom.com, eilong@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: avoid atomic allocations during initialization
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:48:24 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130907.214824.1685385647443815510.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM8tLiPCUS3_jo4KU1zY9+8wRg08fA0ohH9d+0a4jyC69D9JZg@mail.gmail.com>
From: Dmitry Kravkov <dkravkov@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 12:07:50 +0300
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 7:29 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>> Probe should never fail because of an atomic memory allocation if at
>> all possible.
> We here are in open() flow, not probe()
It's the same from my perspective.
Better to drop some packets than have _COMPLETELY INOPERATIVE INTERFACE_.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-08 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-05 20:13 [PATCH] bnx2x: avoid atomic allocations during initialization Michal Schmidt
2013-09-06 18:27 ` David Miller
2013-09-07 1:45 ` Dmitry Kravkov
2013-09-07 4:29 ` David Miller
2013-09-07 9:07 ` Dmitry Kravkov
2013-09-08 1:48 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-09-09 12:20 ` Michal Schmidt
2013-09-11 19:44 ` David Miller
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