netdev - Re: TCP connection stalls under 2.6.24.7

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0808070950260.3859@wrl-59.cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:54:22 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	"Dâniel Fraga" <fragabr@...il.com>
cc:	Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@...ra2net.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Sven Riedel <sr@...urenet.de>,
	Netfilter Developer Mailing List 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: TCP connection stalls under 2.6.24.7

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Dâniel Fraga wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:47:55 +0200
> Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@...ra2net.com> wrote:
> 
> > If your problem is really FRTO related (that what the patch is for),
> > you could try to disable FRTO temporarily:
> 
> 	Hi, the patch helped, but what's the conclusion? Is the problem
> "solved"? Will this patch be merged in the next kernel? This thread
> seems to be forgotten.

I was yesterday preparing the patch description by adding some more 
thoughts to it (as if there weren't enough already) but didn't yet send it 
with new cover (to sort of notify davem).

I give no guarantees about the _next_ kernel but some 2.6.26.y and 2.6.27
is more likely bet.

-- 
 i.