netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] tcp: add newval parameter to tcp_rcvbuf

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Message-ID: <CANn89iJThdC=avrdYAfNE4LqRvPtkGS-7fLQdLOYG-ZOTinjRw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:58:00 -0700
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@...nel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>, 
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>, 
	Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>, Geliang Tang <geliang@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] tcp: add newval parameter to tcp_rcvbuf_grow()

On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>

>
> I usually stack multiple patches, and net-next allows for less merge conflicts.
>
> See for instance
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20251024120707.3516550-1-edumazet@google.com/T/#u
> which touches tcp_rcv_space_adjust(), and definitely net-next candidate.
>
> Bug was added 5 months ago, and does not seem critical to me
> (otherwise we would have caught it much much earlier) ?
>
> Truth be told, I had first to fix TSO defer code, and thought the fix
> was not good enough.

To clarify, I will send the V2 targeting net tree, since you asked for it ;)