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From: "Svenning Sørensen" <sss@secomea.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: guard against coalescing packets from buggy network drivers
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:01:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <535A86F3.5010602@secomea.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398440595.29914.77.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>


On 25-04-2014 17:43, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> If you want a debugging patch, this should happen way before TCP stack
> or even IP stack.
>
> Say you want to use this buggy driver on a router, this code path will
> never bit hit.
>
You are right, of course, there are more effective ways to catch buggy 
drivers.
But they will probably also be much more expensive.
This one is very cheap, being in a relatively cold path, especially 
compared to the memcpy in the same path.

Svenning

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-25 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-25 15:02 [PATCH] net: guard against coalescing packets from buggy network drivers Svenning Sørensen
2014-04-25 15:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-04-25 16:01   ` Svenning Sørensen [this message]
2014-04-25 16:49     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-04-25 19:32       ` Svenning Sørensen

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