linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] [TCP]: Must count fack

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Date:	Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:11:29 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	guichaz@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ray-lk@...rabbit.org,
	cw@...f.org, giangiacomo_mariotti@...oo.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] [TCP]: Must count fack_count also when
 skipping 

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:53:12 +0200 (EET)

> [PATCH net-2.6] [TCP]: Must count fack_count also when skipping
> 
> It makes fackets_out to grow too slowly compared with the
> real write queue.
> 
> This shouldn't cause those BUG_TRAP(packets <= tp->packets_out)
> to trigger but how knows how such inconsistent fackets_out
> affects here and there around TCP when everything is nowadays
> assuming accurate fackets_out. So lets see if this silences
> them all.
> 
> Reported by Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@...il.com>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Applied, thanks Ilpo.
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