netdev - Re: TCP: orphans broken by RFC 2525 #2.17

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Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:37:47 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP: orphans broken by RFC 2525 #2.17

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:32:31PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:12:58 +0200
> 
> > Once again, for now, I will only handle this precise case of the extra
> > CRLF, but this will not fix the issue with pipelined requests.
> 
> You might want to read server/connection.c in the apache httpd
> sources.
>
> It does exactly what Eric Dumazet and I have suggested to you.

I've seen that. Though nginx, squid, thttpd, haproxy and lighttpd all
make use of the standard orphans and are all affected by the same issue.

> But, I guess the entire world is wrong and you're right Willy.

Given the figures above, that's not how I analyze it, I'm sorry.

Willy

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