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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 02/17] tcp: don't backtrack to sacked skbs
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=46rom: "Ilpo J=E4rvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:44:27 +0200

> From: Ilpo J=E4rvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
>=20
> Backtracking to sacked skbs is a horrible performance killer
> since the hint cannot be advanced successfully past them...
> ...And it's totally unnecessary too.
>=20
> In theory this is 2.6.27..28 regression but I doubt anybody
> can make .28 to have worse performance because of other TCP
> improvements.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo J=E4rvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>

Applied.