Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269923AbUJHAHp (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:07:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269853AbUJHAHV (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:07:21 -0400 Received: from ns1.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.210]:35457 "EHLO www.lanforge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269929AbUJHAEn (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:04:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4165D997.1060006@candelatech.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:04:39 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug? References: <00e501c4ac9a$556797d0$b83147ab@amer.cisco.com> <41658C03.6000503@nortelnetworks.com> <015f01c4acbe$cf70dae0$161b14ac@boromir> <4165B9DD.7010603@nortelnetworks.com> <20041007150035.6e9f0e09.davem@davemloft.net> <4165C20D.8020808@nortelnetworks.com> <20041007152634.5374a774.davem@davemloft.net> <4165C58A.9030803@nortelnetworks.com> <20041007154204.44e71da6.davem@davemloft.net> <4165D0D7.8040608@nortelnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <4165D0D7.8040608@nortelnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 510 Lines: 16 Can't a lot of NICs do UDP checksum in hardware, basically for free? At least in this case there would be no penalty for select() looking for the corrupted packet? Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/