netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3 (spin 2) resend] TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT updates

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Message-Id: <20080321.163403.160241605.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:34:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mcmanus@...ksong.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 (spin 2) resend] TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT updates - process
 as established

From: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@...ksong.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:55:58 -0400

> commit 4a234b7dd1a5144fe5630f1b0739e3c8c28de2ed
> Author: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@...ksong.com>
> Date:   Sun Mar 2 16:52:37 2008 -0500
> 
>     Change TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT implementation so that it transitions a
>     connection to ESTABLISHED after handshake is complete instead of
>     leaving it in SYN-RECV until some data arrvies. Place connection in
>     accept queue when first data packet arrives from slow path.
>     
>     Benefits:
>       - established connection is now reset if it never makes it
>        to the accept queue
>     
>      - diagnostic state of established matches with the packet traces
>        showing completed handshake
>     
>      - TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT timeouts are expressed in seconds and can now be
>        enforced with reasonable accuracy instead of rounding up to next
>        exponential back-off of syn-ack retry.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@...ksong.com>

Applied and pushed to net-2.6.26, thanks.
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