netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6 1/2] [TCP]: Fix ratehalving with bidirectional flows

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:21:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6 1/2] [TCP]: Fix ratehalving with bidirectional
 flows

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:59:10 +0300 (EEST)

> I think it's probably good to add tp->snd_una != prior_snd_una
> check there too... It's not going to make a large difference,
> mostly just to be conservative when skb collapse stuff got done
> (and maybe to annoy cheaters too though I couldn't at this point
> figure out how they could abuse it)...
> 
> ...I think I can come up with that on Wednesday, so please hold
> stable push until that.

It'll definitely need to wait at least a day as I cannot even make TCP
or UDP connections out from my machine with the current net-2.6 tree,
and this is what I'm debugging at the moment.

I'm hoping that it's just something stupid like the make not
rebuilding everything necessary after I changed the __u16's into
__u32's in skb_frag_t.
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