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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bkenward@solarflare.com
Cc: linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	rstonehouse@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sfc: ensure recovery after allocation failures
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:39 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190214.094739.535607170151691470.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6beed7df-01e6-a15e-0e19-d40bf0ff945c@solarflare.com>

From: Bert Kenward <bkenward@solarflare.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:27:43 +0000

> From: Robert Stonehouse <rstonehouse@solarflare.com>
> 
> After failing to allocate a receive buffer the driver may fail to ever
> request additional allocations. EF10 NICs require new receive buffers to
> be pushed in batches of eight or more. The test for whether a slow fill
> should be scheduled failed to take account of this. There is little
> downside to *always* requesting a slow fill if we failed to allocate a
> buffer, so the condition has been removed completely. The timer that
> triggers the request for a refill has also been shortened.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Stonehouse <rstonehouse@solarflare.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bert Kenward <bkenward@solarflare.com>

Applied, thanks Bert.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-02-14 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-14 17:27 [PATCH net-next] sfc: ensure recovery after allocation failures Bert Kenward
2019-02-14 17:47 ` David Miller [this message]

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