From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:34:22 +0100 On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:20:43AM -0800, Simon Kirby wrote: > Hmm...and this is considered desired behavior? It seems like an odd way > of handling packets intended to test latency and reliability. :) IP is best-effort. Dropping packets in odd cases to make locking simpler is not unreasonable. Would you prefer an slower kernel? True. But this is a quality of implementation issue and I doubt the kernel would be slower if we fixed this silly behavior. Frankly, the locking is due to lazyness, rather than a specific design decision. So let's fix it. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
