Re: soft-lockups in sunvnet

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On (08/08/14 12:59), David Miller wrote:
> 
> This only works because we free the packet in the ->ndo_start_xmit()
> method.  If we didn't do that, and we freed it up at ACK time, we'd
> need to force the ACKs in order to guarentee that we release the SKB
> in a finite amount of time.
> 

I see. I missed that subtlety. I'll make a note in the comments for
my proposed change, in case this piece of code changes in the future.

--Sowmini

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