From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269897AbUJGXdL (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:33:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269929AbUJGXdH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:33:07 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:6530 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269897AbUJGX3U (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:29:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4165D0D7.8040608@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:27:19 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: martijn@entmoot.nl, hzhong@cisco.com, jst1@email.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, davem@redhat.com Subject: Re: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug? References: <00e501c4ac9a$556797d0$b83147ab@amer.cisco.com> <41658C03.6000503@nortelnetworks.com> <015f01c4acbe$cf70dae0$161b14ac@boromir> <4165B9DD.7010603@nortelnetworks.com> <20041007150035.6e9f0e09.davem@davemloft.net> <4165C20D.8020808@nortelnetworks.com> <20041007152634.5374a774.davem@davemloft.net> <4165C58A.9030803@nortelnetworks.com> <20041007154204.44e71da6.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20041007154204.44e71da6.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > So people who improperly use select() with blocking sockets get punished > in a different way, with half the performance compared to today? Yes. Rather than having an app that doesn't work at all in the case of corrupted packets, they get half the performance. Chris