netdev - Re: SWS for rcvbuf

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Date:	Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:40:12 -0500
From:	John Heffner <jheffner@....edu>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	alexandre.sidorenko@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SWS for rcvbuf < MTU

David Miller wrote:
> From: John Heffner <jheffner@....edu>
> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:16:39 -0500
> 
>> Please don't apply the patch I sent.  I've been thinking about this a 
>> bit harder, and it may not fix this particular problem.  (Hard to say 
>> without knowing exactly what it is.)  As the comment above 
>> __tcp_select_window() states, we do not do full receive-side SWS 
>> avoidance because of header prediction.
>>
>> Alex, you're right I missed that special zero-window case.  I'm still 
>> not quite sure I'm completely happy with this patch.  I'd like to think 
>> about this a little bit harder...
> 
> Ok

Alright, I've thought about it a bit more, and I think the patch I sent 
should work.  Alex, any opinion?  Any way you can test this out?

Thanks,
   -John
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