From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: network delay simulation
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:25:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040317102515.6a5f7642.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040317100001.7d33accc@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:00:01 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
> In an earlier project we had a test suite that failed the Nth allocation,
> then repeated startup failing from 1 till all allocations in a typical
> interaction round trip had been tested. Sure led to some nasty failures
> in the test bed, which was way better than the customer finding it.
Yes, but we don't really want alloc_skb() doing this, this makes the
failures go to other places (like TCP, netlink, whatever) instead of
what you're trying to actually test (RX out of buffer handling in
a specific driver).
It is an interesting thing to test too, no doubt.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-17 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-16 23:10 network delay simulation Stephen Hemminger
2004-03-16 23:00 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-17 1:50 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-17 2:06 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-18 3:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-17 1:41 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-17 15:37 ` John Heffner
2004-03-17 16:09 ` jamal
2004-03-17 17:51 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-17 18:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-03-17 18:25 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-03-18 20:04 ` [PATCH] packet delay scheduler Stephen Hemminger
2004-03-19 4:53 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-19 18:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-03-23 2:50 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-19 14:52 ` jamal
2004-03-19 22:21 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-22 13:40 ` jamal
2004-03-17 2:40 ` network delay simulation Ben Greear
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