netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] tcp: avoid tx starvation by SYNACK packets

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:25:49 +0200
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	hans.schillstrom@...csson.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	subramanian.vijay@...il.com, dave.taht@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ncardwell@...gle.com, therbert@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] tcp: avoid tx starvation by SYNACK packets

On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 01:22 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@...csson.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:23:03 +0200
> 
> > On Tuesday 26 June 2012 19:02:36 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >> With David patch using jhash instead of SHA, I reach ~315.000 SYN per
> >> second.
> > 
> > I have similar results from ~170k to ~199k synack/sec.
> 
> Eric and Hans, I'm going to add Tested-by: tags for both of you
> when I commit this patch if you don't mind. :-)

You can also add my

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>

(I agree with you patch, and its does not have an attack vector...)

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