Re: Longstanding networking / SMP issue? (duplextest)

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 02:38:55 EST


   From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
   Date: 20 Feb 2003 08:52:46 +0100
   
   That's probably because of the lazy ICMP socket locking used for the
   ICMP socket. When an ICMP is already in process the next ICMP triggered
   from a softirq (e.g. ECHO-REQUEST) is dropped
   (see net/ipv4/icmp_xmit_lock_bh())

Good spotting Andi.
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