From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932195AbYALBxW (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:53:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762787AbYALBxM (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:53:12 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44436 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756952AbYALBxL (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:53:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:53:10 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080111.175310.212714342.davem@davemloft.net> To: cfriesen@nortel.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: questions on NAPI processing latency and dropped network packets From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <4787844E.4020107@nortel.com> References: <478654C3.60806@nortel.com> <20080110.172049.118174993.davem@davemloft.net> <4787844E.4020107@nortel.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Chris Friesen" Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:59:26 -0600 > I'd love to work on newer kernels, but we have a commitment to our > customers to support multiple releases for a significant amount of time. And by asking here for people to dig into it for you, you are asking people for free help providing that support. That's why there is such negative backlash to asking questions about such ancient kernel here, you're asking us to do your work, for free.