From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Loke, Chetan" Subject: RE: [PATCH] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in ndo_start_xmit methods Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:23:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1311105179-26408-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <1311105738.3113.11.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20110719202922.GA2352@minipsycho> <1311108107.3113.22.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20110720001904.GA1992@neilslaptop.think-freely.org> <4E26205C.1040106@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: "Eric Dumazet" , "Jiri Pirko" , , "Alexey Dobriyan" , "David S. Miller" To: "Rick Jones" , "Neil Horman" Return-path: Received: from exprod6og111.obsmtp.com ([64.18.1.27]:44993 "HELO exprod6og111.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751302Ab1GTPX5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:23:57 -0400 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message In-Reply-To: <4E26205C.1040106@hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev- > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Rick Jones > Sent: July 19, 2011 8:25 PM > To: Neil Horman > Cc: Eric Dumazet; Jiri Pirko; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Alexey Dobriyan; > David S. Miller > Subject: Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in > ndo_start_xmit methods > > How "everyday use" is pktgen considered? As "everyday use" as > netperf/iperf/whatnot? Is it actually considered something one would > run > on production rather than test systems? > Totally agree. There are quite a few ways to send traffic from user-space. Build a pcap file and then blast it from user-space. No sane sysadmin would use pktgen on production systems to begin with.