Re: eepro100 woes -> linux memory issue

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Hello!

> Which should cause more shortages than our method, since X number of
> buffers may be queued erroneously.

No doubts.


> Then why does inserting a "mark_bh" after a kfree_skb alleviate the problem
> somewhat? 

Apparently, it is placebo effect. 8)8)


> 1) packet arrives
> 2) dest unknown, buffer  is  freed instead of passing it to netif_rx()
> 3) rx ring buff is replenished
> 
> there should never be a buffer failure.

Of course.

Alexey
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