netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] net: optimize ICMP-reply code path

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jan 2017 09:43:52 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] net: optimize ICMP-reply code path

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
<brouer@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Use-case: The specific case I experienced this being a bottleneck is,
> sending UDP packets to a port with no listener, which obviously result
> in kernel replying with ICMP Destination Unreachable (type:3), Port
> Unreachable (code:3), which cause the bottleneck.

Why this is a case we should care about for performance?