PERFORCE change 111230 for review

[Paolo Pisati]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:16:41PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Paolo Pisati wrote:
> 
> >Then, after a discussion on irc, pull the plug on any present (and future) 
> >hackery & half-baked solution, and declare in kernel libalias incompatible 
> >with tso.
> 
> This seems silly -- why is it not compatible? 

Because libalias expects a pkt into a contiguous piece of memory, and
to achieve this we previously do a pullup of the entire pkt into an
mbuf cluster. This worked fine until libalias met a tso capable nic,
and i did a 'cvsup' on that box: TSO created pkts bigger than 2k, the
pullup function couldn't handle them and pkts were silently discarded.

The real solution here is to make libalias use mbuf chain, but i
wanted this code to enter the tree without any further delay, and thus
libalias was declared incompatible with tso.


bye
-- 

Paolo

Piso's first law: nothing works as expected!