Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: u_ether: remove interrupt throttling

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From: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 09:04:54 +0200

> What Dave Miller is saying is that it's ALWAYS a bug to delay
> completion of SKBs. The only thing you're doing with chipidea is
> delaying interrupt by up to 125us; which is still a bug from the
> point of view of the networking layer, but it's more difficult to
> perceive any problems because of the short time where interrupt is
> delayed.

I didn't say delaying was illegal.

I said that the SKB free must occur in a reasonable, finite, amount of
time.

And if these timeout events ensure that, then it's fine.
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