Re: network delay simulation

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:00:01 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In an earlier project we had a test suite that failed the Nth allocation,
> then repeated startup failing from 1 till all allocations in a typical
> interaction round trip had been tested.  Sure led to some nasty failures
> in the test bed, which was way better than the customer finding it.

Yes, but we don't really want alloc_skb() doing this, this makes the
failures go to other places (like TCP, netlink, whatever) instead of
what you're trying to actually test (RX out of buffer handling in
a specific driver).

It is an interesting thing to test too, no doubt.