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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:17:16 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Adding just a pinch of icache/dcache pressure...
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:10:56PM +0100, Jan Harkes wrote:
> btw. There definitely is a network receive buffer leak somewhere in
> either the 3c905C path or higher up in the network layers (2.4.0 or
> 2.4.1). The normal path does not leak anything.


What do you mean with "normal path" ? 

And are you sure it was a leak? TCP can buffer quite a bit of skbs, but it 
should be bounded based on the number of sockets. 


-Andi

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