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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: Assertions when lowering tcp_tso_win_divisor
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:31:06 -0800
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:59:18 +1100
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > We are seeing following assertions when running specweb99 with
> > tcp_tso_win_divisor lowered to 4, 2 or 1 on linux 2.6.9 based kernels.
> 
> 2.6.9 is known to have bugs in TCP book-keeping.  Please try 2.6.10-rc2
> instead.

Actually, that's true.  I missed that this report was against
2.6.9 vanilla, TCP is buggy as can be wrt TSO in that
release.