netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-2.6.24 0/3]: Attempt to fix lost

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Date:	Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:03:29 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	TAKANO Ryousei <takano@...-inc.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-2.6.24 0/3]: Attempt to fix lost_retrans brokeness

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:

> Lost_retrans handling of sacktag was found to be flawed, two
> problems that were found have an intertwined solution. Fastpath
> problem has existed since hints got added and the other problem
> has probably been there even longer than that. ...This change
> may add non-trivial processing cost.
> 
> Initial sketch, only compile tested. This will become more and
> more useful, when sacktag starts to process less and less skbs,
> which hopefully happens quite soon... :-) Sadly enough it will
> probably then be consuming part of the benefits we're able to
> achieve by less skb walking...
> 
> First one is trivial, so Dave might want to apply it already.

Hmm, forgot to add -n to git-format-patch. Since it's currently
RFC, I won't bother to resubmit with numbers unless somebody
really wants that. Here's the correct ordering, if it's not
obvious from the patches alone:

$ git-log -n 3 --pretty=oneline HEAD | cat
c628f5040cf31323f9166d41cb46070aa7be8cc5 [TCP]: Limit processing lost_retrans loop to work-to-do cases
b7388980b7bfa1b9159a65a81b9501df43c67b08 [TCP]: Fix lost_retrans loop vs fastpath problems
a1c39117034c58bf786a5941dd7e9a5968439007 [TCP]: Separate lost_retrans loop into own function


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