RE: [PATCH] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in ndo_start_xmit methods

Loke, Chetan
2011-07-20T15:23:57Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Rick Jones
> Sent: July 19, 2011 8:25 PM
> To: Neil Horman
> Cc: Eric Dumazet; Jiri Pirko; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Alexey Dobriyan;
> David S. Miller
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in
> ndo_start_xmit methods
>
> How "everyday use" is pktgen considered? As "everyday use" as
> netperf/iperf/whatnot? Is it actually considered something one would
> run
> on production rather than test systems?
>

Totally agree. There are quite a few ways to send traffic from
user-space. Build a pcap file and then blast it from user-space. No sane
sysadmin would use pktgen on production systems to begin with.