netdev - Re: [PATCH net,v2] tcp: Fix broken repair socket window probe patch

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Date:   Mon, 16 Jul 2018 07:16:43 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Stefan Baranoff <sbaranoff@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrey Vagin <avagin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net,v2] tcp: Fix broken repair socket window probe patch



On 07/15/2018 08:36 AM, Stefan Baranoff wrote:
> Correct previous bad attempt at allowing sockets to come out of TCP
> repair without sending window probes. To avoid changing size of
> the repair variable in struct tcp_sock, this lets the decision for
> sending probes or not to be made when coming out of repair by
> introducing two ways to turn it off.
> 

Thanks for the fix.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>