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Message-ID: <1335353427.3274.103.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:30:27 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Chris <xchris89x@...glemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: many rx packets dropped since 2.6.37
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 13:03 +0200, Chris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There is a bug since 2.6.37 with dropped rx packets in virtual
> environments (like kvm) and bonded network interfaces.
>
> References:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/890475
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709551
>
> This change has led to:
> commit caf586e5f23cebb2a68cbaf288d59dbbf2d74052
> Author: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Thu Sep 30 21:06:55 2010 +0000
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=caf586e5f23cebb2a68cbaf288d59dbbf2d74052
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8990f468a
>
> Would it be possible to remove this patch?
>
> --
> Chris
Its no possible to remove this patch.
If you want to ignore fact that packets _are_ dropped, just ignore the
counter.
We want to track dropped packets, not hide them.
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