Re: PATCH Re: udp weirdness

[kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello!

> If I'm looping on a sendto() with a blocking socket, I would expect the 
> syscall to block until the packet has been handed off to the device 
> driver.  This may mean blocking until local congestion backs off.

Feel free to implement. :-)


> The way we do it now means that we can chew up massive amounts of cpu 
> creating packets in userspace and throwing them away in the kernel, with 
> no way of knowing from userspace that it is happening.

What? If your applications is enough clever to handle ENOBUFS right,
set IP_RECVERR and live in peace.

Alexey