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Message-ID: <4CB70D5A.7010601@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Date:	Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:02:02 +0200
From:	Lennart Schulte <lennart.schulte@...s.rwth-aachen.de>
To:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
CC:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: sack lost marking fixes

I forgot to mention that I will of course have a look at it as soon as I
finished the thesis :)

On 14.10.2010 15:36, Lennart Schulte wrote:
> At the moment I don't have any time to spare to look into this since my
> master thesis has to be ready in about 2 weeks. Sorry for that!
> 
> On 14.10.2010 13:42, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>> When only fast rexmit should be done, tcp_mark_head_lost marks
>> L too far. Also, sacked_upto below 1 is perfectly valid number,
>> the packets == 0 then needs to be trapped elsewhere.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
>> ---
>> I think 6830c25b7d08fbbd922959425193791bc42079f2 that added the
>> packets == 0 check is mostly wrong but I cc'ed Lennart if he has some 
>> particular case I'm missing that wouldn't work after this patch.
>>
>> Dave, no particular "bad regression" fixed here, so no absolute need to 
>> have this in net-2.6 but I leave it up to you whether there or net-next.
>>
>>  ...
> 
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