James Carlson wrote:

Rao Shoaib writes:
Yes it's a driver bug. I am not sure why this was not pursued. This must not be the case anymore or else sendfile would not work.

Plain old TCP retransmit would be clobbered by such a thing.  If it
happens anywhere, it seems like a pretty substantial bug to me.

Jim I would have to dig through my emails to find the reason. I coded NFS to use desballoc but Peter Staubach pointed out that he had done this in the past (he is the one who proposed desballoc) and ran into this NIC bug and hence I was not allowed to putback.

Rao.

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