On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:35:12AM -0400, jamal wrote: > > It seems there are a lot of dumbass apps (latest i have found is iperf > when analyzing batching results) out there whose performance is affected > if they dont set IP_RECVERR.
Affected in what way? > If you set that option though you end up getting all these skbs back IP_RECVERR just delivers ICMPs. Do you mean those with "all these skbs" ? > to the app which i see as unnecessary work if i am uninterested. I would > like to not do a recvmsg to find out what those messages are - rather > just receiving any errors back. > My proposal is to add another option which is mutually exclusive with > IP_RECVERR that allows for errors only. What ICMPs do you not want? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html