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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html