[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> ust a heads up here to the UML folks in case it was missed - with the
> current code, packet delivery to UML machines using tuntap driver
> *will* mess up (stall totally or major bursts of lag) if more than 10
> packets are queued to UML at a time. 

It wasn't missed.  Someone else posted 
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=user-mode-linux-user&m=110752781409419&w=2)
that networking freezes until a character is typed on the console.

This is a clear sign of the SIGIO missing some traffic and letting it sit
on the host until some other IO happens.

> Ofcourse, the actual cause for this should be fixed (SIGIO mess up or
> whatever it is). 

Yup.  It does look like there's some sort of race in the SIGIO handler.

                                Jeff



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