From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: don't do GRO on second port
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:53:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100902125326.GD8775@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100902091839.GB6246@ff.dom.local>
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:18:39AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 02:55:54PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:51:51 -0700 (PDT)
> > David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:09:00 +0200
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:51:17AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
> > > >> What?
> > > >>
> > > >> Don't cross the GRO streams.
> > > >> Why?
> > > >>
> > > >> It would be bad.
> > > >> I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
> > > >>
> > > >> Try to imagine all the Internet as you know it stopping instantaneously
> > > >> and every bit in every packet swapping at the speed of light.
> > > >> Total packet reordering.
> > > >> Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Hubert
> > > >
> > > > Looks really bad to me, so... let's forget it! ;-) (At least until
> > > > next next.)
> >
> > The patch wasn't that bad, but the movie quote probably confused you.
>
> Yes, I was equally confused by both of them. Good to know it's only
> fiction... ;-)
Stephen, after Eric's explanation, I really think this patch was a bad
idea, and I apologize my false opinion started this.
I hope David, will revert this patch, please.
Sorry,
Jarek P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-02 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-27 20:50 [PATCH] net: Fix vlan_gro_frags vs netpoll and bonding paths Jarek Poplawski
2010-08-28 0:13 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-28 9:44 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-08-28 10:54 ` [RFC] gro: Is it ok to share a single napi from several devs ? Eric Dumazet
2010-08-28 14:31 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-08-28 14:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-08-28 15:16 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-08-28 17:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-28 21:41 ` David Miller
2010-08-28 22:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-28 22:33 ` David Miller
2010-08-29 9:59 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-08-29 17:06 ` David Miller
2010-08-29 18:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-08-30 6:42 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-08-30 15:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-30 16:50 ` David Miller
2010-08-30 17:51 ` [PATCH] sky2: don't do GRO on second port Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-30 19:09 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-01 21:51 ` David Miller
2010-09-01 21:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-09-02 9:18 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-02 12:53 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2010-09-02 16:30 ` David Miller
2010-09-02 16:48 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-02 8:33 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-02 9:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-02 9:55 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-02 10:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-02 11:02 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-02 12:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-02 12:28 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-02 17:08 ` David Miller
2010-09-02 21:26 ` Herbert Xu
2010-09-03 5:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-02 9:32 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-08-30 18:36 ` [RFC] gro: Is it ok to share a single napi from several devs ? Jarek Poplawski
2010-08-30 19:59 ` [RFC] netpoll: " Eric Dumazet
2010-08-30 20:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-30 20:19 ` Eric Dumazet
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