Re: [patch] TCP/IP delacks disabled with MPI

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:12:20 +0400 (MSK DST)


Hello!

> The problem is that the channel bonding will notice that a link has gone
> bad only if its xmit buffer fills. Many cards will never do this because
> they will simply throw away any data they get if the link is down.

I see.

Only drivers had and have nice flag named dev->tbusy to make this stuff
and there are no reasons to invent (and then to test) something new
one.

Alexey

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