netdev - Re: [TCP]: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT causes leak sockets

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Message-Id: <20080617.020840.169830916.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:08:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, vgusev@...nvz.org, mcmanus@...ksong.com,
	xemul@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, rjw@...k.pl
Subject: Re: [TCP]: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT causes leak sockets

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:32:20 +0200

> those up to 1000 msec delays can be 'felt' via ssh too, if this problem 
> triggers then the system is almost unusable via the network. Local 
> latencies are perfect so it's an e1000 problem.

Or some kind of weird interrupt problem.

Such an interrupt level bug would also account for the TX timeout's
you're seeing btw.
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