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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket filter
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:29:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071119152933.GA19126@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071118.144010.236028466.davem@davemloft.net>

> > > 
> > > All of our options suck, we just have to choose the least sucking one
> > > and right now to me that's decrementing the counter as much as I
> > > empathize with the SNMP application overflow detection issue.
> > 
> > If the SNMP monitor detects an false overflow the error it reports 
> > will be much worse than a single missing packet. So you would replace 
> > one error with a worse error.
> 
> This can be fixed, the above cannot.

I don't see how, short of breaking the interface
(e.g. reporting 64bit or separate overflow counts)
-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-19 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-16  2:46 [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket filter Wang Chen
2007-11-16  2:54 ` David Miller
2007-11-16  3:18   ` Wang Chen
2007-11-16  4:04     ` David Miller
2007-11-16  4:13       ` Wang Chen
2007-11-16 17:02       ` Benny Amorsen
2007-11-16  4:11     ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-16  4:17       ` Wang Chen
2007-11-17 13:18         ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-18  0:09           ` David Miller
2007-11-18 21:45             ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-18 22:40               ` David Miller
2007-11-19  1:09                 ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-19  8:26                   ` David Miller
2007-11-19  2:02                 ` Wang Chen
2007-11-19  8:30                   ` David Miller
2007-11-19  4:41                 ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-19  8:32                   ` David Miller
2007-11-19 11:49                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2007-11-19 15:29                 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-11-19 22:23                   ` David Miller
2007-11-20  5:29                     ` Bill Fink
2007-11-20  6:15                       ` David Miller
2007-11-20  6:25                         ` Wang Chen
2007-11-20  6:31                           ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-20 14:05                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-21  1:39                         ` David Miller
2007-11-29  7:55                           ` Wang Chen
2007-11-29  9:21                             ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-29 10:08                               ` Wang Chen
2007-11-29 10:21                                 ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-29 10:33                                   ` Wang Chen
2007-11-29 10:38                                     ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-29 10:56                                 ` Gerrit Renker
2007-11-29 12:01                                   ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-18 22:14             ` Stephen Hemminger

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