On Fri, 2007-10-08 at 16:02 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:35:12AM -0400, jamal wrote:
> > Affected in what way? > They dont get errors back and they just keep sending even in the presence of errors - take a look at ip_push_pending_frames. I have been struggling initially to unconditionally mod that part, but it may break certain apps expectations. > > 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" ? yes - sorry thats what i meant; the app has to do a recvmsg to grab them > > 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? All. cheers, jamal - 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
