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SubjectRe: [tbench regression fixes]: digging out smelly deadmen.
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.

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Evgeniy Polyakov


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