shemminger@osdl.org said:

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We should eliminate the max backlog thing completely.  There is
no need for it.

Still need some bound, because if process_backlog is running slower
than the net; then the queue could grow till memory exhausted from
skbuff's. 

yes. I eliminated netdev_max_backlog long ago in an experiment with a
2.4 kernel, and it became quite easy to consume huge amounts of kernel
memory.

Jason