On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <
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> >
> > Actually the meachanism of stopping the queue and starting it is
> > already there. But even then due to some sync issue between the poll
> > routine and xmit, we were resulted in using the slots of skb
>
> Actually the meachanism of stopping the queue and starting it is
> already there. But even then due to some sync issue between the poll
> routine and xmit, we were resulted in using the slots of skb which was
> not actually got freed before.
> I agree this could a bug , Since its not is not
Hi Benn,
Please find my comments below.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <
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> On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:55 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > From: Sathya Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > This patch addresses the memory leak happenni
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:55 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> From: Sathya Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This patch addresses the memory leak happenning in drivers transmit queue
> under heavy load condition. Once the transmit queue becomes full, driver
> does an automatic wrapup of queue. During w