Re: [PATCH] net: guard against coalescing packets from buggy network drivers

[Svenning SÃrensen]

On 25-04-2014 17:43, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> If you want a debugging patch, this should happen way before TCP stack
> or even IP stack.
>
> Say you want to use this buggy driver on a router, this code path will
> never bit hit.
You are right, of course, there are more effective ways to catch buggy 
drivers.
But they will probably also be much more expensive.
This one is very cheap, being in a relatively cold path, especially 
compared to the memcpy in the same path.

Svenning
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