netdev - Re: scp stalls mysteriously

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Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:56:01 +0100
From:	Frederic Leroy <fredo@...rox.org>
To:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Asdo <asdo@...ftmail.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Damian Lukowski <damian@....rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: scp stalls mysteriously

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 06:05:24PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>
> In the recent work, the most suspicious things are the new timeout things, 
> I'll read them through once I've some time (but so far I've not found 
> anything wrong in them but I of course can miss something subtle).  
> ...I've added Damian as CC if he has some idea. If you want you can try 
> with a trivial revert of that stuff, I've included a patch for that below.

> [PATCH] Revert new RTO backoff stuff

So I recompiled my kernel with linus-stable tree. It works (bad) as the tuxonice 2.6.32-rc5.
All further test are on linus-stable tree.

I made 3 test with your patch. All 3 copy worked well.
So it's in the new RTO backoff.

I made only one trace (.9).

-- 
Frédéric Leroy
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