Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:56:36 +0200 | | From | Willy Tarreau <> | | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Silent data corruption when using sendfile() |
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 04:19:00PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 22:08 +0800, Hillf Danton wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Might be, or not (could be a NIC bug) > > > > > Dunno why sendfile sits in the layer of NIC and > > how they interact. > > sendfile() relies heavily on TSO capabilities, a buggy NIC could > corrupt frame content on some obscure occasions. > > We had some known cases on IPv6 for example.
Similarly I remind having experienced bugs on early Yukon chips years ago that would regularly emit total crap on the wire.
Willy
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