Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:01:55 +0200 | From | Svenning Sørensen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: guard against coalescing packets from buggy network drivers |
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On 25-04-2014 17:43, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > If you want a debugging patch, this should happen way before TCP stack > or even IP stack. > > Say you want to use this buggy driver on a router, this code path will > never bit hit. > You are right, of course, there are more effective ways to catch buggy drivers. But they will probably also be much more expensive. This one is very cheap, being in a relatively cold path, especially compared to the memcpy in the same path.
Svenning
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