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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: use hardware buffer pool to allocate skb
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:33:23 +0200
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Since an skb can sit forever in an application queue, you have created
an easy way to livelock the system when enough skb's are waiting to be
read.