On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 23:37 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Interesting. But if we can't allocate a buffer how can we > do network processing?
How typical NIC drivers handle this case ? Answer : nothing special should happen, we drop incoming traffic, and make sure the driver recovers properly. (like not NULL deref or crazy things like that) Why virtio_net should be different ? > > If we can reproduce the problem, we can maybe move > allocation out of napi disabled section, but then > we'll need to add more locking. More exactly, use appropriate locking ;) _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
