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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:17:45 +1000
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In message <20030625.205941.41631020.davem@redhat.com> you write:
>    From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>    Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:57:09 +1000
>    
>    Frankly, I'm amazed anyone sees reordering in real life...
> 
> Many paths on the internet are quite reordered, this is
> the first thing.  In fact, I claim that any TCP stack that
> doesn't do reordering detection is busted performance wise.

Sure, but I was assuming that the packets arrived in order and got
processed out of order.  If the first one isn't happening, this patch
is doubly useless 8)

Thanks,
Rusty.
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  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.