Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:27:31 +1100 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10 |
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:22:38PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Yes we will linearize the packet in dev_queue_xmit but as soon > as the netdev stops the tx queue you'll get corruption.
OK that can't happen because the linearisation precedes that, but ARP (or anything else that delays the skb prior to dev_queue_xmit) can still cause corruption.
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