From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
kolo@albatani.cz, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 14470] New: freez in TCP stack
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:10:07 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091202.151007.202653587.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0911262352050.24189@melkinpaasi.cs.helsinki.fi>
From: "Ilpo J^[$(D+#^[(Brvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:54:53 +0200 (EET)
> [PATCH] tcp: clear hints to avoid a stale one (nfs only affected?)
>
> Eric Dumazet mentioned in a context of another problem:
>
> "Well, it seems NFS reuses its socket, so maybe we miss some
> cleaning as spotted in this old patch"
>
> I've not check under which conditions that actually happens but
> if true, we need to make sure we don't accidently leave stale
> hints behind when the write queue had to be purged (whether reusing
> with NFS can actually happen if purging took place is something I'm
> not sure of).
>
> ...At least it compiles.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo J^[$(D+#^[(Brvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
I think this is a good safety net even if it doesn't specifically
fix a specific problem.
But I'd like to see this patch tested by the person seeing the
problem so we can know whether that is fixed or not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-02 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-26 15:41 Fw: [Bug 14470] New: freez in TCP stack Stephen Hemminger
2009-10-28 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-28 22:27 ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-10-29 5:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-29 5:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-29 6:02 ` David Miller
2009-10-29 8:00 ` David Miller
2009-11-26 21:54 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-11-26 23:37 ` David Miller
2009-11-27 6:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-02 23:10 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-12-03 6:24 ` David Miller
2010-03-18 21:04 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-19 15:52 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-10-29 12:58 ` Fw: " Ilpo Järvinen
2009-10-29 14:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-30 20:18 ` Herbert Xu
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