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Message-Id: <20091202.151007.202653587.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:10:07 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi Cc: eric.dumazet@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kolo@...atani.cz, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bug 14470] New: freez in TCP stack From: "Ilpo J.$(D+#.(Brvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:54:53 +0200 (EET) > [PATCH] tcp: clear hints to avoid a stale one (nfs only affected?) > > Eric Dumazet mentioned in a context of another problem: > > "Well, it seems NFS reuses its socket, so maybe we miss some > cleaning as spotted in this old patch" > > I've not check under which conditions that actually happens but > if true, we need to make sure we don't accidently leave stale > hints behind when the write queue had to be purged (whether reusing > with NFS can actually happen if purging took place is something I'm > not sure of). > > ...At least it compiles. > > Signed-off-by: Ilpo J.$(D+#.(Brvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi> I think this is a good safety net even if it doesn't specifically fix a specific problem. But I'd like to see this patch tested by the person seeing the problem so we can know whether that is fixed or not. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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