Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: indicate oom when addbuf returns failure

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On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 08:24:41AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:13:00PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > Actually this code looks strange:
> > Note that add_buf inicates out of memory
> > condition with a positive return value, and ring full
> > (which is not an error!) with -ENOSPC.
> 
> Indeed, this ultimately came from
> 
> commit 9ab86bbcf8be755256f0a5e994e0b38af6b4d399
> Author: Shirley Ma <mashirle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Jan 29 03:20:04 2010 +0000
> 
>     virtio_net: Defer skb allocation in receive path Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:53:38 -0800
> 
> (Greg, please don't apply this even though I've just given you
> the upstream commit ID that you were asking for :)
> 
> where it confuses a memory allocation error with an add_buf failure.
> 
> > Possibly the right thing to do is to
> > 1. handle ENOMEM specially
> > 2. fix add_buf to return ENOMEM on error
> 
> I think we should make it so that only a memory allocation error
> is returned as before.  There is no need for returning the add_buf
> error unless add_buf is now doing an allocation itself that needs
> to be retried.

That's what my patch did, right? Ack it?

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