netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time

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Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:58:12 +0100
From:	Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time

Herbert Xu píše v Čt 18. 12. 2008 v 08:30 +1100:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 05:04:48PM +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> >
> > This is all nice, but it still does not solve those series of SIGURGs on
> > the receiving side. My suggestion is to not generate a new SIGURG until
> > the data for the latest one have arrived. There can be only one byte of
> > urgent data, so if somebody sends more than one, it cannot be handled by
> > the receiver, anyway, so that use case is broken and need not be taken
> > into account.
> 
> No we need to send a SIGURG as soon as we enter urgent mode.  The
> whole point of urgent mode is to inform the receiver ASAP.  As the
> urgent data itself cannot be expedited due to the in-order nature
> of TCP, setting the flag and sending the signal is the best we can
> do.

That doesn't contradict my suggestion, which is: "Send the SIGURG as
soon as possible, but do not send _more_ SIGURGs until the urgent data
arrives."  I'm going to send a patch to make it clear.

Petr Tesarik


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