netdev - Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors

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Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:58:47 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jesper.juhl@...il.com,
	tilman@...p.cc, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, rjw@...k.pl,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:59:57 EDT, Mark Lord said:

> The one thing I did not have time for initially,
> was a painstaking blunt instrument binary search of
> every commit since v2.6.24.

The nice thing about binary search is that it's by definition an
O(log2(N)) operation, which isn't bad at all as far as algorithms go.

The truly blunt instrument here would be a linear search of every commit...



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