netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] r8169: straighten out overlength frame detection (v3)

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Message-Id: <20100105.124040.192660261.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:40:40 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	nhorman@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, romieu@...zoreil.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] r8169: straighten out overlength frame detection
 (v3)

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:15:53 +0100

> If hardware is buggy, driver should focus on security first,
> performance doesnt matter in this case.

Copying every packet is way too much of a performance hit to
accept.

Things are not so black and white, there are shades of grey.

We can fix this without making things so slow, try harder...
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