Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Silent data corruption when using sendfile()

From: Willy Tarreau <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:56:36 +0200

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 <[email-masked]> 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