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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] netvsc: chimney buffer size error handling
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:38:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180823083840.4b95e78b@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b18ed633-9c31-339e-ce88-fa96699879b9@intel.com>

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:45:17 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> On 8/9/2018 6:50 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Fix the error handling in setting up transmit buffer.
> > If setting up chimney buffer fails, then it is not connected so
> > no need to send disconnect.
> > 
> > Allow for some unused area if full area is not used.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>  
> 
> subsytem is net/netvsc, so title should be:
> net/netvsc: fix chimney buffer size error handling
> 
> Fixes: 4e9c73e96e83 ("net/netvsc: add Hyper-V network device")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Assuming you want patch to be backported.
> 
> I will update as above while merging.

There is not a high urgency to back port this. If chimney buffer setup
fails the driver is unusable anyway. It is more of a theoretical error condition.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-23 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-09 17:50 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] netvsc performance enhancements Stephen Hemminger
2018-08-09 17:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] netvsc: chimney buffer size error handling Stephen Hemminger
2018-08-23 14:45   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-08-23 15:38     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-08-09 17:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] bus/vmbus: add host latency tuning function Stephen Hemminger
2018-08-23 14:45   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-08-23 15:40     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-08-09 17:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] netvsc: set lower host latency Stephen Hemminger
2018-08-09 17:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] netvsc: implement tx_done_cleanup Stephen Hemminger
2018-08-23 14:46   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-08-23 14:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] netvsc performance enhancements Ferruh Yigit

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