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The original way of changing ring length was to completely tear down the lif's queue structure and then rebuild it, while running the risk of allocations that might fail in the middle and leave us with a broken driver. Instead, we can set up all the new queue and descriptor allocations first, then swap them out and delete the old allocations. If the new allocations fail, we report the error, stay with the old setup and continue running. This gives us a safer path, and a smaller window of time where we're not processing traffic. Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.