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

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Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:55:06 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TCP]: Bind fackets_out state to highest_sack more
 tightly

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:39:46 +0200 (EET)

> 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

Done, thanks!
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