Re: [PATCH v2 net 1/2] vmxnet3: avoid xmit reset due to a race in vmxnet3

From: Ronak Doshi Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:47:54 -0700 > The field txNumDeferred is used by the driver to keep track of the number > of packets it has pushed to the emulation. The driver increments it on > pushing the packet to the emulation and the emulation resets it to 0

[PATCH v2 net 1/2] vmxnet3: avoid xmit reset due to a race in vmxnet3

The field txNumDeferred is used by the driver to keep track of the number of packets it has pushed to the emulation. The driver increments it on pushing the packet to the emulation and the emulation resets it to 0 at the end of the transmit. There is a possibility of a race either when (a) ESX is