netdev - Re: [PATCH 7/7] tcp: make sure xmit goal size never becomes zero

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Date:	Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:11:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, zbr@...emap.net, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] tcp: make sure xmit goal size never becomes zero

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:07:55 +0200

> It's not too likely to happen, would basically require crafted
> packets (must hit the max guard in tcp_bound_to_half_wnd()).
> It seems that nothing that bad would happen as there's tcp_mems
> and congestion window that prevent runaway at some point from
> hurting all too much (I'm not that sure what all those zero
> sized segments we would generate do though in write queue).
> Preventing it regardless is certainly the best way to go.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Applied.
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