netdev - Re: Assertions in latest kernels

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Message-Id: <20080122.235723.52174015.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:57:23 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	krkumar2@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Assertions in latest kernels

From: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:22:05 +0530

> Sorry for the duplicate bug report, I just saw that Dave Young had already
> reported three of the
> 4 assertions that I was getting. The only different assert I am getting is:
> 
> iperf with multiple threads almost always gets these 4, *especially* when I
> do some batching :).
> 
> static void tcp_fastretrans_alert(struct sock *sk, int pkts_acked, int flag)
> {
>       ...
>       if (WARN_ON(!tp->sacked_out && tp->fackets_out))
>             tp->fackets_out = 0;
>       ...
> }

Does this assertion show up first or do you get the other TCP
ones first?  It might be important, in that if you get the
others ones first that corrupted state might be what leads to
this one.

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