Re: [PATCH RFC] r8169: straighten out overlength frame detection (v3)
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2010-01-05 20:40:36
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2010-01-05 20:40:36
From: Eric Dumazet <redacted> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:15:53 +0100
If hardware is buggy, driver should focus on security first, performance doesnt matter in this case.
Copying every packet is way too much of a performance hit to accept. Things are not so black and white, there are shades of grey. We can fix this without making things so slow, try harder...