linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Disable TCP_DEBUG and FASTRETRANS

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Date:	Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:16:00 -0200
From:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	dpmcgee@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable TCP_DEBUG and FASTRETRANS_DEBUG by default

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:52:38 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@...il.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:25:24 -0500
> 
> > If these are truly debug options, they should be turned off by default
> > and can be tweaked if necessary. Fix one usage of the flag to use #if
> > instead of #ifdef so defining to zero is acceptable.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@...il.com>
> 
> Illegal window shrinks are a serious issue, and the fact that everyone
> will see those messages by default and sometimes report them has been
> tremendously useful.
>

Agreed. I recently got bug report because of that message.  It is useful
and doesn't disturbe when network is fine, so please don't remove it.

fbl
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