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["Joshua R. Poulson" <jopoulso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This patch affects networking and not storage, so it should not have an
effect on storage reliability. It may be more appropriate to open a new
issue to investigate the remaining instability.

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Title:
  [Hyper-V] hv_netvsc: Eliminate memory allocation in the packet send
  path

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Trusty:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Utopic:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Vivid:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Wily:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  K. Y. Srinivasan (2):
    hyperv: Cleanup the test for freeing skb when we use sendbuf
      mechanism
    hyperv: Eliminate memory allocation in the packet send path

   drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h | 3 +-
   drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 9 ++++-
   drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
   drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c | 2 +
   4 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

  These have landed in net-next by David Miller

  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=3271e4f18d9a4ec9ac5568f94444dac08f29c5a0
  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=b08cc79155fc26d0d112b1470d1ece5034651a4b
  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=cbacec76bcd03ff21b37ac331e652b5a8f3ea644

  Patch to a patch ->

  Commit b08cc79155fc26d0d112b1470d1ece5034651a4b eliminated memory
  allocation in the packet send path:

      "hv_netvsc: Eliminate memory allocation in the packet send path

      The network protocol used to communicate with the host is the remote ndis (rndis)
      protocol. We need to decorate each outgoing packet with a rndis header and
      additional rndis state (rndis per-packet state). To manage this state, we
      currently allocate memory in the transmit path. Eliminate this allocation by
      requesting additional head room in the skb."

  This commit introduced a bug since it did not account for the case if the skb
  was cloned. Fix this bug.

  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-
  next.git/commit/?id=b56fc3c536541c8081cd5f1f1d101a16c002a365

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