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Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: lower limit on buffer size

From "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: lower limit on buffer size
Date 2017-06-05 21:40 +0200
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On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 11:17:30PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 06/02/2017 11:25 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> >>>commit d85b758f72b0 "virtio_net: fix support for small rings"
> >>
> >>   Commit d85b758f72b0 ("virtio_net: fix support for small rings")
> >>
> >>>was supposed to increase the buffer size for small rings
> >>>but had an unintentional side effect of decreasing
> >>>it for large rings. This seems to break some setups -
> >>>it's not yet clear why, but increasing buffer size
> >>>back to what it was before helps.
> >>>
> >>>Fixes: d85b758f72b0 "virtio_net: fix support for small rings"
> >>
> >>Fixes: d85b758f72b0 ("virtio_net: fix support for small rings")
> >
> >I may be bikeshedding, but, personally I never do the parens--they're
> >redundant given the quotes, and space is often tight.
> 
>    Just see Documetation/process/submitting-patches.rst.

Yeah, I know, I claim it's a bad rule (but I'm too lazy to send a patch,
so, weight my opinion accordingly).

--b.

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[PATCH] virtio_net: lower limit on buffer size "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-06-02 02:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: lower limit on buffer size "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> - 2017-06-02 04:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: lower limit on buffer size Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2017-06-02 11:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: lower limit on buffer size "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> - 2017-06-02 22:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: lower limit on buffer size Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2017-06-03 22:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: lower limit on buffer size "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> - 2017-06-05 21:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: lower limit on buffer size Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> - 2017-06-02 15:20 +0200

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