Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:27:31PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> OK that can't happen because the linearisation precedes that, but
> ARP (or anything else that delays the skb prior to dev_queue_xmit)
> can still cause corruption.

In fact it's probably TCP that's delaying the packet.

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