Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:25:12 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!) |
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:47:18PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > Coudl the problem be in the NIC driver not in the alloc_skb? I have used > both 2.4.{1,3} for some time and never seen this corruption. I use ping > -f with various packet sizes for stress testing my IPSec boxes... these do > quite a bit of extra skb creation as an IPSec header sometimes does not > fit in the original skb. No problems yet. > > My gut tells me to blame the NIC driver of the NIC itself.
The NIC is not directly involved in alloc_skb() (except maybe if it corrupts internal data structures of the allocator)
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