Re: [PATCH,RFC] gianfar: fix BUG under load after introduction of skb recycling

[Michael Guntsche]

On May 23, 2009, at 13:51, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

> Since commit 0fd56bb5be6455d0d42241e65aed057244665e5e ("gianfar:
> Add support for skb recycling"), gianfar puts skbuffs that are in
> the rx ring back onto the recycle list as-is in case there was a
> receive error, but this breaks the following invariant: that all
> skbuffs on the recycle list have skb->data = skb->head + NET_SKB_PAD.
>
>
> Michael, can you re-test with this version of the patch?
> Andy, can you see if this is OK with you?

Hi, I have been running tests with this patch for the last 6 hours and  
had no panics so far.
So it fixes the issues I am seeing as well.

Hope this helps,
Michael
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