Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:10:16 +0300 | From | Evgeniy Polyakov <> | Subject | Re: [tbench regression fixes]: digging out smelly deadmen. |
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:57:13PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger (shemminger@vyatta.com) wrote: > Why bother with last_rx at all on loopback. I have been thinking > we should figure out a way to get rid of last_rx all together. It only > seems to be used by bonding, and the bonding driver could do the calculation > in its receive handling.
Not related to the regression: bug will be just papered out by this changes. Having bonding on loopback is somewhat strange idea, but still this kind of changes is an attempt to make a good play in the bad game: this loopback-only optimization does not fix the problem.
-- Evgeniy Polyakov
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