On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:09 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Hutchings > Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:01:45 +0100 > > > It also sucks that the secure but low-performance behaviour is enabled > > for all variants, while AIUI only some suffer from the bug. I realise > > you probably don't have access to every variant (and neither does > > Francois) but perhaps you could come up with a test case that could be > > used to start whitelisting common variants that don't have the bug? > > As far as we know all chip variants seem to have the problem. That's not what I understood from the discussion of the early back-and-forth changes to receive buffer size. > Furthermore, this issue has been known about and investigated for > about 3 months. In that time no better options for handling this > issue reliably have been discovered and implemented. > > Feel free to code up (and test) something better yourself if you don't > like the fix as it exists currently. :-) I would have had a go already, if I actually had some of this hardware to hand. Luckily I have managed to avoid buying any so far. But if anyone is prepared to loan me a NIC then I promise to have a go at it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.