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| author | Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com> | 2019-09-27 19:12:11 +0900 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-10-04 17:17:47 +0200 |
| commit | b91fec1ecf6f0a93d909f8cb98ad8aea7109e81b (patch) | |
| tree | b9b09453174d8e706be657a76e93b36a2d78c7f3 /drivers/staging/qlge/TODO | |
| parent | 6e9c52b920974b90c4ca994c5d8c5bc56742017f (diff) | |
staging: qlge: Refill empty buffer queues from wq
When operating at mtu 9000, qlge does order-1 allocations for rx buffers in
atomic context. This is especially unreliable when free memory is low or
fragmented. Add an approach similar to commit 3161e453e496 ("virtio: net
refill on out-of-memory") to qlge so that the device doesn't lock up if
there are allocation failures.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190927101210.23856-18-bpoirier@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/qlge/TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/qlge/TODO | 3 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO b/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO index 51c509084e80..f93f7428f5d5 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO @@ -1,6 +1,3 @@ -* reception stalls permanently (until admin intervention) if the rx buffer - queues become empty because of allocation failures (ex. under memory - pressure) * commit 7c734359d350 ("qlge: Size RX buffers based on MTU.", v2.6.33-rc1) introduced dead code in the receive routines, which should be rewritten anyways by the admission of the author himself, see the comment above |