Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:24:38 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: Longstanding networking / SMP issue? (duplextest) | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:34:22 +0100
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:20:43AM -0800, Simon Kirby wrote: > Hmm...and this is considered desired behavior? It seems like an odd way > of handling packets intended to test latency and reliability. :) IP is best-effort. Dropping packets in odd cases to make locking simpler is not unreasonable. Would you prefer an slower kernel?
True.
But this is a quality of implementation issue and I doubt the kernel would be slower if we fixed this silly behavior.
Frankly, the locking is due to lazyness, rather than a specific design decision. So let's fix it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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