netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] [TCP]: NAGLE_PUSH seems to be a wrong way around

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Message-Id: <20071205.033348.155990962.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:33:48 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] [TCP]: NAGLE_PUSH seems to be a wrong way around

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:18:14 +0200 (EET)

> ...If I understood the very old history correctly, this bug was introduced 
> in 2.4.0-test12 which inverted !tail incorrectly to nonagle==1.
> 
> You can check include/net/tcp.h diffs from this commit:
> http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=c9c06167e7933d93a6e396174c68abf242294abb
> 
> ...Though it's very large one. So I included only the relevant portion 
> here below.

Thanks for the info, indeed it seems it has been broken this
way all this time.
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