Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly

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

From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:38:25 +0200

> If anything it would be better as a per route flag.
> Then you could set it only for your local network
> where you know Gigabit happens and reordering might
> be avoidable in some cases.

This is still bogus, on SMP we get packet reordering all the time.

> P.S.: Arthur I think your arguments would have more
> force if you published the test program that demonstrates the
> corruption.

I already know it happens, and that IBM has gotten NFS corruption due
to this problem.  Using NFS over UDP is stupid.

I find it ironic to claim that folks are "stuck with UDP over NFS" but
were able to upgrade their networking technology to gigabit.