Re: [PATCH] netpoll can lock up on low memory.

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On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 09:58:27AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> btw., the current NR_SKBS 32 in netpoll.c seems quite low, especially 
> e1000 can have a whole lot more skbs queued at once. Might be more 
> robust to increase it to 128 or 256?

Not sure that the card's queueing really makes a difference. It either
eventually releases the queued SKBs or it doesn't. What's more
important is that we be able to survive bursts like the output of
sysrq-t. This seems to work already.

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