netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestamp bugs

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Message-ID: <4B79BB7C.6020507@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:24:12 -0500
From:	William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@...il.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Developers <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestamp
 bugs

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 02:03:34PM -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> Is this a bug fix? 
>>>
>> Yes.  One of many, all inter-related.
>>
> It's useful to distingush bug fixes from cleanups from optimizations etc.
> ...

The bug fixes depend on the cleanups.
  * 1/7 has the new functions.
  * 2/7 has bug fixes that require the new functions.
  * 3/7 fixes (and optimizes) the incoming code path, so that
  * 4/7 can fix the bugs.
  * 5/7 is needed to test the code from part 1.
  * 6/7 is the cleanup of parsing (also fixes some bugs introduced by
    davem's patch in December), so that
  * 7/7 can fix the bugs.

I originally tried submitting these as separate individual pairs of
patches (in November, December, January), but nobody paid any attention.
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