From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Truschnigg <johannes@truschnigg.info>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Linux-Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Silent data corruption when using sendfile()
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:19:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1342275540.3265.9760.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJd=RBAJOqJDSBpaaB+2-WU_pa5vChXSf6TbLH8fi3HNt6hZ9w@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 22:08 +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Might be, or not (could be a NIC bug)
> >
> Dunno why sendfile sits in the layer of NIC and
> how they interact.
sendfile() relies heavily on TSO capabilities, a buggy NIC could
corrupt frame content on some obscure occasions.
We had some known cases on IPv6 for example.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-14 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-07-14 8:04 ` PROBLEM: Silent data corruption when using sendfile() Hillf Danton
2012-07-14 8:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-14 8:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-07-14 10:13 ` Johannes Truschnigg
2012-07-14 10:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-14 10:44 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-07-14 11:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-14 13:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-07-14 17:09 ` Johannes Truschnigg
2012-07-14 11:44 ` Thorsten Kranzkowski
2012-07-14 14:08 ` Hillf Danton
2012-07-14 14:19 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-07-14 14:56 ` Willy Tarreau
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