netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next] tcp: increase size at which tcp_bound_to_half_wnd bounds to > TCP_MSS

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:54:46 +0000
From:	"Seymour, Shane M" <shane.seymour@....com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next] tcp: increase size at which
 tcp_bound_to_half_wnd bounds to > TCP_MSS_DEFAULT

> From: Eric Dumazet [mailto:eric.dumazet@...il.com]
> Trying to cope with ridiculous windows these days is really a waste of
> time, as we perform this check for all tcp sendmsg() calls :(

I don't disagree with you but unfortunately there are still devices
out there like this and probably will be for a long time.

> Anyway, your patch is reversed.

I'm not sure what you mean by reversed, I didn't change the direction
of the test in the code just what it's being compared against and so
it's greater than not greater than or equal to.

Unless auto-correction changed reviewed to reversed?