netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race

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Message-Id: <20091203.223954.255415131.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:39:54 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	kdakhane@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter@...r.kernel.org, zbr@...emap.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:29:05 +0100

> kapil dakhane a .$(D+1.(Bcrit :
>> 
>> I applied your changes are suggested above. It appears that the patch
>> successfully resolves the race condition it addressed. I managed to
>> push the system to 1.9 gbps, previously I could not push it beyond 1.6
>> gbps. Unfortunately, there appear to be more race conditions, as the
>> fault happened again when I attempted to push it to 2.3 gbps. This
>> time I did not get any error message in /var/log/messages, although
>> they appear on the console the same way as before.
>> 
> 
> Thanks for testing Kapil
> 
> I am not sure of exact set of changes you have in your kernel.
> 
> David, could you push your net-next-2.6 tree with pending changes so that
> I can work on bind() side (interaction with timewait) and be sure Kapil
> can work on latest net-next-2.6 ?

Done.
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