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.duma...@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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
