Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Rework the fix for Rx stall during OOM and network stress

From	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Rework the fix for Rx stall during OOM and network stress
Date	2017-02-09 22:40 +0100
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From: Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vineethp@amazon.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 18:59:01 +0000

> The commit 90c311b0eeea ("xen-netfront: Fix Rx stall during network
> stress and OOM") caused the refill timer to be triggerred almost on
> all invocations of xennet_alloc_rx_buffers for certain workloads.
> This reworks the fix by reverting to the old behaviour and taking into
> consideration the skb allocation failure. Refill timer is now triggered
> on insufficient requests or skb allocation failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vineethp@amazon.com>
> Fixes: 90c311b0eeea (xen-netfront: Fix Rx stall during network stress and OOM)
> Reported-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

Applied.

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[PATCH] xen-netfront: Rework the fix for Rx stall during OOM and network stress Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vineethp@amazon.com> - 2017-02-07 20:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Rework the fix for Rx stall during OOM and  network stress Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-02-08 16:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Rework the fix for Rx stall during OOM  and network stress David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-02-09 22:40 +0100

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