[PATCH 3/6] net: thunderx: Increase transmit queue length

[Sunil Kovvuri]

>The driver should successfully recover from out of memory situations
> and not stop RX/TX completely.
This memory allocation is while interface bringup/initialization and not during
packet I/O.

>Don't put this off as not "related" to your patch, it is as this
>introduces the behavior for this user, and you should fix it before
>expecting me to apply this patch series.
I would disagree on this, as this patch hasn't introduced any failure here,
if this user has connected any device which asks for a bit large amount
of coherent memory then i am sure he will see the same issue.
And above i have suggested what could be done to not see this issue.

But anyway for the time being I will resubmit the patch series without this
patch, hope that would be okay.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:00 AM, David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 22:00:49 +0530
>
>> Increasing descriptor ring size will lead to more memory allocation.
>> And what you are seeing is a memory alloc failure and doesn't seem
>> to be due to this driver change.  I mean it looks like the behavior
>> will be same for other drivers as well.
>
> The driver should successfully recover from out of memory situations
> and not stop RX/TX completely.
>
> There might be some other problem with your driver causing this.
>
> Don't put this off as not "related" to your patch, it is as this
> introduces the behavior for this user, and you should fix it before
> expecting me to apply this patch series.