[ofa-general] [PATCH] ipoib: null tx/rx_ring skb pointers on free

akepner at sgi.com akepner at sgi.com
Thu Nov 6 08:04:28 PST 2008


On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:40:32AM +0200, Eli Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:23:07PM -0800, akepner at sgi.com wrote:
> ...
> looking a the patch I don't understand why it should fix the problem
> you're seeing. I suspect we may be hiding the problem.
> 

I think that may be correct. 

For the stale skb pointers to be reused by the ipoib driver, it 
looks like we'd need to get 'unexpected' completions. 

-- 
Arthur




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