Subject: Re: [RFC] Ethernet Cheap Cryptography

From: Dawid Ciezarkiewicz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:35:27 +0200

On Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:16, David Miller wrote:
> From: Dawid Ciezarkiewicz <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:51:46 +0200
> 
> > I've tried to put ccrypt handlers as close to hardware xmit and recv as 
> > possible so local reorder doesn't matter. Medium doesn't reorder frames 
and 
> > switches, bridges shouldn't do that neither (but as Stephen J. Bevan said 
> > this may not be always true).
> 
> You can put it all the way in netif_receive_skb() and you still
> can see reordering of receive packets on an SMP system.

Thanks for pointing that out. As every frame reorder will cost "only" one real 
frame to by lost I need to investigate this issue and get more real testing 
in such environments.