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SubjectRe: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:01:13AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:41:38AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> ...
> > > Great story! Alas I don't understand this fully either, but it seems
> > > Changli Gao was concerned with sendpage sending this "as pages", so
> > > when NETIF_F_SG flag is available. Did you try this without SG btw?
> >
> > No I did not. I can try, it's not too hard. It would in part defeat the
> > purpose of the mechanism (especially at 10 Gbps) but at least it will
> > help narrow the problem down.
>
> Yes, I meant it only as a proof of concept. BTW, delaying TCP acks a
> bit for these sendpages should then make it more reproducible, I guess.

ah ? I can try that too, using iptables on the target machine to drop
a few outgoing acks.

Regards,
Willy



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