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Date:      Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:41:55 +0900
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CFT: vr(4)
Message-ID:  <20080217064155.GB10866@cdnetworks.co.kr>
In-Reply-To: <200802160638.m1G6cSX1088707@lava.sentex.ca>
References:  <20071008061758.GF46694@cdnetworks.co.kr> <200802160638.m1G6cSX1088707@lava.sentex.ca>

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On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 01:38:46AM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
 > At 01:17 AM 10/8/2007, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
 > >It seems that there had been several stability issues in vr(4).
 > >Here is mimimal patch that make vr(4) work reliably under heavy
 > >network loads. The patch does the following:
 > > - Always check writability of mbuf before padding and make a
 > >   writable copy of the mbuf if mbuf is marked as read-only.
 > > - Before padding is done check remaining bytes such that it can
 > >   safely extend buffer size of the mbuf.
 > > - Before padding always check the return value of m_defrag(9).
 > > - Zero out pad space to avoid leaking data.
 > >
 > >If you have vr(4) hardware please give it spin and let me know
 > >the result.
 > 
 > Its been working quite well on 3 Soekris 5501 boards!  It would be 
 > great to see these fixes committed.
 > 

I'll commit it in a week.
Thanks a lot for your time/testing!

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon



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