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Subject: Re: net: af_packet: skb_orphan should be avoided in TX path.
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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 22:53:30 +0300

> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:44:27PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> It would be a surprise to use tx mmap (presumably to get high
>> performance), and a modular af_unix ;)
> 
> Hmm, this seems to be what distros ship. If it's illegal, we should disable
> this in Kconfig?

He said it would be illogical to configure the kernel like this if
the goal is top performance, he didn't say it was illegal.