netdev - Re: [PATCH] [TCP] MIB: Fine-tune reordered ACK's SACK block counting more

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Message-Id: <20070926.220158.25139583.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:01:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TCP] MIB: Fine-tune reordered ACK's SACK block
 counting more

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:07:04 +0300 (EEST)

> Hmm, thought a bit more about it... How about this then? No additional 
> counter. Compile tested. Not that I see a large benefit from it, in theory 
> could help logging in some malicious attempt cases; we safely discarded in 
> such case anyway... ...of course if somebody is paranoid enough one might 
> rejoice in it more than I do... :-) Buggy cases will very likely show up 
> regardless this reordering corner-case.

I don't think this is worthwile, passing extra parameters around,
etc. for not much gain.

I'll therefore not apply this one, thanks!
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