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Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:17:45 +1000
Cc: paulus@xxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, fcusack@xxxxxxxxx, carlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:59:41 MST." <20030625.205941.41631020.davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
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In message <20030625.205941.41631020.davem@xxxxxxxxxx> you write:
>    From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>    Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:57:09 +1000
>    
>    Frankly, I'm amazed anyone sees reordering in real life...
> 
> Many paths on the internet are quite reordered, this is
> the first thing.  In fact, I claim that any TCP stack that
> doesn't do reordering detection is busted performance wise.

Sure, but I was assuming that the packets arrived in order and got
processed out of order.  If the first one isn't happening, this patch
is doubly useless 8)

Thanks,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

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