Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx()

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:27:52 +0100

David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:26:17 +0100
> 
>> You are absolutly right. We should guard against recursion, using a new field 
>> in "pcpu_lstats" (cheap access in a hot cache line as we have to update stats 
>> anyway)
>  ...
>> [PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx()
> 
> I'm willing to seriously entertain this change and stick it
> into net-2.6.26 if you will perform a reasonable deep stack
> test.
> 
> For example, create an XFS filesystem, and mount it NFS over
> loopback.  Then stress it like crazy.
> 
> See if this generates stack overflows or weird crashes.
> 
> 

Fair enough :)

I'll do my best to stress it on various situations, with 4K stacks on i386.

Thank you