linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] net/rds: RDS-TCP robustness fixes

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Date:	Sat, 09 May 2015 16:03:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	chien.yen@...cle.com, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
	ajaykumar.hotchandani@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] net/rds: RDS-TCP robustness fixes

From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Date: Tue,  5 May 2015 15:20:50 -0400

> 
> This patch-set contains bug fixes for state-recovery at the RDS 
> layer when the underlying transport is TCP and the TCP state at one 
> of the endpoints is reset
> 
> V2 changes: DaveM comments to reduce memory footprint, follow 
>             NFS/RPC model where possible. Added test-case #3
> 
> Without the changes in this set, when one of the endpoints is reset,
> the existing code does not correctly clean up RDS socket state for stale
> connections, resulting in some unstable, timing-dependant behavior on
> the wire, including an infinite exchange of 3WHs back-and-forth, and a
> resulting potential to never converge RDS state. 
 ...

Yeah this looks a lot better, series applied, thanks.
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