netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix tcp_shifted_skb() adjustment of lost_cnt

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Date:	Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:42:28 -0500
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nanditad@...gle.com, ycheng@...gle.com,
	therbert@...gle.com, subramanian.vijay@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix tcp_shifted_skb() adjustment of lost_cnt_hint
 for FACK

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:31 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> OK, sounds good to me. In that case I think it would be good to have
>> the http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/143114/ patch in -stable as
>> well, since having just the three patches above would leave us with a
>> known reordering issue.
>
> I'll make sure it hits the -stable release after the one Greg is
> trying to put out right now.

Great. Thanks!

> The change you reference rarely matters as most of the time it passes
> a degreee of reordering of one.

Yep.

neal
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