netdev - Re: Divide error in bictcp_cong

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Message-Id: <20110504.124053.260068550.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 04 May 2011 12:40:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, rdunlap@...otime.net, lkml@...hboom.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Divide error in bictcp_cong_avoid ?

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:37:38 -0700

> Don't use BIC, it is known to be unfair between flows.

That doesn't fix the user's bug, nothing in the kernel should causes
crashes under normal circumstances.

Please stop with this deflecting on this report and instead try to
figure out why the illegal divide happens.

Thanks.
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