From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Lunz Subject: Re: netif_rx packet dumping Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:49:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20050303123811.4d934249@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <20050303125556.6850cfe5.davem@davemloft.net> <1109884688.1090.282.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20050303132143.7eef517c@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <1109885065.1098.285.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20050303133237.5d64578f.davem@davemloft.net> <20050303135416.0d6e7708@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org shemminger@osdl.org said: >> We should eliminate the max backlog thing completely. There is >> no need for it. > > Still need some bound, because if process_backlog is running slower > than the net; then the queue could grow till memory exhausted from > skbuff's. yes. I eliminated netdev_max_backlog long ago in an experiment with a 2.4 kernel, and it became quite easy to consume huge amounts of kernel memory. Jason