Re: kernel panic in skb_copy_bits

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jul 04 2013 - 17:32:52 EST


From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 03:12:10 -0700

> It looks like a typical COW issue to me.

Generically speaking, if we have to mess with page protections this
eliminates the performance gain from bypass/zerocopy/whatever that
these virtualization layers are doing.

But there may be other factors involved which might mitigate that.
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