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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc)
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 18:46:58 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041205074658.GA19168@krispykreme.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041129172210.687bcad3.davem@davemloft.net>

 
Hi Dave,

> Try to reproduce without that patch installed.
> 
> If there is any mixup of SKB handling by any element in the
> path the packet travels, you're screw up all the TCP
> accounting knobs on the socket and easily trigger messages
> like the above.

I'll try. FYI we have 70 gigabit cards in that machine, the reason
send-to-self is so useful is that we only need one expensive machine.
Without the patch we need to find two expensive machines with 35
gigabits in each :)

Anton

      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-05  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-29 21:18 KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) Anton Blanchard
2004-11-30  1:22 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-05  7:46   ` Anton Blanchard [this message]

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