netdev - Re: [PATCH] [TCP]: Fix GSO ignorance of pkts

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Message-Id: <20070531.213834.80026176.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 21:38:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TCP]: Fix GSO ignorance of pkts_acked arg (cong.cntrl
 modules)

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 12:10:06 +0300 (EEST)

> Based on feedback from Stephen, I changed the commit msg bit
> clearer, the patch remains the same.
> 
> [PATCH] [TCP]: Fix GSO ignorance of pkts_acked arg (cong.cntrl modules)
> 
> The code used to ignore GSO completely, passing either way too
> small or zero pkts_acked when GSO skb or part of it got ACKed.
> In addition, there is no need to calculate the value in the loop
> but simple arithmetics after the loop is sufficient. There is
> no need to handle SYN case specially because congestion control
> modules are not yet initialized when FLAG_SYN_ACKED is set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Patch applied, thanks a lot!

I'll push this one to -stable too.

Thanks again.
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