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From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: billfink@mindspring.com, andi@firstfloor.org,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket filter
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:25:23 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47427DD3.9030700@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071119.221531.142096724.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller said the following on 2007-11-20 14:15:
> From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:29:45 -0500
> 
>> But the best approach seems to be just not to count
>> it in the first place until tha application has actually received
>> the packet, since as Herbert pointed out, that's what the RFC
>> actually specifies for the meaning of the udpInDatagrams counter.
> 
> I agree and would be happy to apply such a patch :)
> 
> 
> 

I want to wait for more suggestions until make such patch.
Because this solution leads to troubles with some apps, such as NFS.
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6660#c2)


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-20  6:27 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
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 [this message]
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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