netdev - Re: [PATCH] [TCP]: Rexmit hint must be cleared instead of setting it

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Message-Id: <20070328.120709.35017257.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TCP]: Rexmit hint must be cleared instead of setting
 it

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:31:50 +0300 (EEST)

> Stupid error from my side. Even though now that I noticed this,
> I hoped it would have been an optimization but no, the counter
> hint is then incorrect. Thus clearing is necessary for now (I
> still suspect though that this path is never executed).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Better safe than sorry :-)

We can start putting more aggressive assertions around if you'd
like to get some invariants like that validated.
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