Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Mar 1999 01:11:42 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] fixed af_packet to not lose frames and made us crazy in |
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On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Pavel Machek wrote:
>What about kernel telling tcpdump [lost 5 frames here]? It is better >than silently loosing your frames. It will not go OOM. What do you >think?
I thought about that infact. The only thing I can accpet here is to printk a warning every time a sock packet is losing a frame. So doing the check by hand and if it's ok recalling force_ and if it's not ok rejecting the packet kprinting something.
I have to check but I think that the OOM is not an issue. If we slowdown so much in tcpdump I think tbusy will be true before we'll have a way to go OOM. I have to check though, so far this is only a guess.
Andrea Arcangeli
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