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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:56:32 +0100
From: Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.2 networking, NET_BH latency
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:46:11AM +1100, James Morris wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Stelian Pop wrote:
> 
> > I experience some odd behaviour when routing some network packets
> > on a 2.2(.18) kernel (with Ingo's low latency patch in case it 
> > matters).
> > 
> > Although there are probably bugs in the modifications we made
> > (a network card driver, some tweaks in the network core to deal
> > with several packet priorities etc), I'm not sure the behaviour
> > is directly due to a bug in our modifications or some synchronisation
> > issue we overlooked.
> 
> Can you reproduce the problem with a vanilla 2.2.23 kernel?

I didn't try yet, but it is on my list.

Should I interpret your message as some changes between 2.2.18 and 2.2.23
could be responsible for that behaviour or you are just shooting in the
dark ? :-)

Stelian.
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