Re: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Jan 19 2009 - 05:20:31 EST


On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:19:08PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>
> Actually, I see, the myri10ge driver does put up to
> 64 bytes of the initial packet into the linear area.
> If the IPV4 + TCP headers are less than this, you will
> hit the corruption case even with the myri10ge driver.

I thought splice only mapped the payload areas, no?

So we should probably test with a non-paged driver to be totally
sure.

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