From 91edf66743d18bec97b1c099366e62e343542a6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: behzad nouri <behzadnouri@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 13:32:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] discards packets which are not (fully) populated (#3508)

Not discarding packets which are not (fully) populated is bug prone or
might waste resources.
---
 perf/src/packet.rs | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/perf/src/packet.rs b/perf/src/packet.rs
index 17c49069cd8514..64bc4366ea431e 100644
--- a/perf/src/packet.rs
+++ b/perf/src/packet.rs
@@ -90,9 +90,11 @@ impl PacketBatch {
                     // break the payload into smaller messages, and here any errors
                     // should be propagated.
                     error!("Couldn't write to packet {:?}. Data skipped.", e);
+                    packet.meta_mut().set_discard(true);
                 }
             } else {
                 trace!("Dropping packet, as destination is unknown");
+                packet.meta_mut().set_discard(true);
             }
         }
         batch