netdev - Re: [PATCH] [TCP]: Bind fackets_out state to highest

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712101437080.3437@kivilampi-30.cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:39:46 +0200 (EET)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TCP]: Bind fackets_out state to highest_sack more
 tightly

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, David Miller wrote:

> From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:27:24 +0200 (EET)
> 
> > Added checks will catch most of the errors if the current
> > complex fack_count counting logic is flawed somewhere.
> > 
> > Fackets_out should always be advancable if highest_sack is too
> > because the fackets_out is nowadays accurate (and obviously it
> > must be smaller than packets_out).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
> 
> Applied to net-2.6.25, thanks!

Please get the fack_count fix as well from the mm1 thread before my 
mailbox gets filled with stacktraces :-) :
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119728952018975&w=2

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 i.