netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 06/17] tcp: fix corner case issue in segmentation during rexmitting

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Date:	Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:01:35 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 06/17] tcp: fix corner case issue in
 segmentation during rexmitting

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:44:31 +0200

> From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
> 
> If cur_mss grew very recently so that the previously G/TSOed skb
> now fits well into a single segment it would get send up in
> parts unless we calculate # of segments again. This corner-case
> could happen eg. after mtu probe completes or less than
> previously sack blocks are required for the opposite direction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Applied.
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