netdev - Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10

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Date:	Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:15:39 +0100
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:10:57PM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 04:02:59PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> ...
> > If I understood correctly Jarek's patch, he wants to allocate a page and
> > copy linear content of the skb there, so this will end up being the same
> > case as with splicing from the file. And while generally this may be a
> > good idea, but with usual 1.5k mtu this will copy every skb, which is
> > rather bad idea. Will have to think :)
> > 
> 
> As I mentioned earlier, I (poorly) tried to realize Changli's idea
> only, and it's more to verify the reason still (after it failed with
> SG method...).

Jarek, since it now works when disabling both SG and GSO, we know that the
bug is triggered when passing through do_tcp_sendpage(). Thus, I will not
try your patch #3 yet, but rather wait for fix candidates to try.

Thanks!
Willy

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