netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: enhance tcp collapsing

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Date:   Tue, 01 Nov 2016 10:39:54 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Cc:     Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@...lanox.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: enhance tcp collapsing

On Tue, 2016-11-01 at 12:35 -0400, Neal Cardwell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> >
> > As Ilya Lesokhin suggested, we can collapse two skbs at retransmit
> > time even if the skb at the right has fragments.
> >
> > We simply have to use more generic skb_copy_bits() instead of
> > skb_copy_from_linear_data() in tcp_collapse_retrans()
> >

> >
> > Reported-by: Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@...lanox.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> > ---
> 
> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> 

Thanks Neal.

David please hold this patch, further tests show an issue I need to
track and fix.