From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: "Tomar, Nagendra" <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: BUG in tcp_timer.c:tcp_retransmit_timer()
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:50:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040329215057.3fd40210.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403292251520.27795-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:54:14 +0530 (IST)
Nagendra Singh Tomar <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com> wrote:
> Thats right. But what about the other cases of retransmission
> failures for which we are having a negative return (-ENOMEM, -EAGAIN,
> -EHOSTUNREACH etc). Even for these cases its not a good idea to
> artificially increment tp->retransmits, lest in some extreme case we might
> timeout a connection without a single packet going on the wire.
That's just like the packet getting dropped at the next hop,
and not the case this branch of code intends to deal with.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-30 5:50 UTC|newest]
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2004-03-30 4:09 ` BUG in tcp_timer.c:tcp_retransmit_timer() David S. Miller
2004-03-29 17:24 ` Nagendra Singh Tomar
2004-03-30 5:50 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-03-29 20:40 ` Nagendra Singh Tomar
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