From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wang Chen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket filter Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:25:23 +0800 Message-ID: <47427DD3.9030700@cn.fujitsu.com> References: <20071119152933.GA19126@one.firstfloor.org> <20071119.142313.63549156.davem@davemloft.net> <20071120002945.91fafb2b.billfink@mindspring.com> <20071119.221531.142096724.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: billfink@mindspring.com, andi@firstfloor.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from [222.73.24.84] ([222.73.24.84]:59094 "EHLO song.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750894AbXKTG14 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:27:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071119.221531.142096724.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller said the following on 2007-11-20 14:15: > From: Bill Fink > 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)