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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat•com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail•com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in ndo_start_xmit methods
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:01:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E25F0A3.8020509@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311108107.3113.22.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On 07/19/2011 01:41 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 22:29 +0200, Jiri Pirko a écrit :
>
>> You are right, but it may not cause panic, right? In case this patch
>> would cause significant performance regression, how about to just forbid
>> pktgen to run on soft-netdevs ?
>>
>
> Please do

No, please do not.  Pktgen *can* work on soft-devs if you do not
use multi-skb, and it can be useful for testing highs speed vlan
traffic and various other things.

If you must, forbid multi-skb on soft devices, but don't just
break pktgen for all soft-devices.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Note : a sysadmin has other ways to make a machine panic or reboot or
> halt...
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-19 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-19 19:52 [PATCH] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in ndo_start_xmit methods Neil Horman
2011-07-19 20:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-19 20:17   ` Joe Perches
2011-07-19 20:29   ` Jiri Pirko
2011-07-19 20:41     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-19 21:01       ` Ben Greear [this message]
2011-07-20  0:19       ` Neil Horman
2011-07-20  0:25         ` Rick Jones
2011-07-20 15:23           ` Loke, Chetan
2011-07-20  0:43         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-20  0:52           ` Ben Greear
2011-07-20  2:07             ` Neil Horman
2011-07-20  4:19               ` Ben Greear
2011-07-20  4:24               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-20 15:17                 ` Loke, Chetan
2011-07-20 15:18                 ` Neil Horman
2011-07-20 15:30                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-20 15:39                     ` Neil Horman
2011-07-20 15:44                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-20 16:19                         ` Neil Horman
2011-07-20 15:35                   ` Michał Mirosław
2011-07-20 15:40                     ` Neil Horman
2011-07-20 16:08                       ` Michał Mirosław
2011-07-20 16:18                         ` Neil Horman
2011-07-20 16:37                     ` Ben Greear
2011-07-20 16:33                   ` Ben Greear
2011-07-20 16:36                     ` Neil Horman
2011-07-21 22:01                   ` David Miller
2011-07-21 22:14                     ` Ben Greear
2011-07-21 22:19                       ` David Miller
2011-07-21 22:26                         ` Ben Greear
2011-07-21 23:50                         ` Neil Horman
2011-07-22  0:08                           ` David Miller
2011-07-22  1:37                             ` Neil Horman
2011-07-20  1:59           ` Neil Horman
2011-07-25 19:45 ` [PATCH 0/2] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in ndo_start_xmit methods (v2) Neil Horman
2011-07-25 19:45   ` [PATCH 1/2] net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flags Neil Horman
2011-07-25 20:11     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-26 14:54       ` Neil Horman
2011-07-25 19:45   ` [PATCH 2/2] net: Audit drivers to identify those needing IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING cleared Neil Horman
2011-07-26 18:34     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2011-07-26 16:05 ` [PATCH 0/2] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in ndo_start_xmit methods (v3) Neil Horman
2011-07-26 16:05   ` [PATCH 1/2] net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flags Neil Horman
2011-07-28  5:42     ` David Miller
2011-07-28  8:15     ` Robert Olsson
2011-07-28 10:50       ` Neil Horman
2011-07-26 16:05   ` [PATCH 2/2] net: Audit drivers to identify those needing IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING cleared Neil Horman
2011-07-28  5:42     ` David Miller
2011-07-29  6:16   ` [PATCH 0/2] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in ndo_start_xmit methods (v3) Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-07-29 11:19     ` Neil Horman
2011-08-17 15:07   ` Ben Hutchings
2011-08-22  0:27     ` Neil Horman
2011-08-22 16:17       ` Ben Hutchings
2011-08-22 17:33         ` Ben Hutchings
2011-08-22 18:14         ` Neil Horman
2011-08-23 14:01           ` Ben Hutchings
2011-08-23 15:13             ` Neil Horman
2011-08-23 15:53               ` Ben Hutchings
2011-08-23 16:21                 ` Neil Horman

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