From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jheffner@psc.edu
Cc: coroberti@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
greearb@candelatech.com, moser.michael@gmail.com
Subject: Re: TCP connection stops after high load.
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:51:59 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070417.125159.43010586.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4625246E.2090700@psc.edu>
From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:47:58 -0400
> My only reservation in submitting this to -stable is that it will in
> many cases increase the default tcp_mem values, which in turn can
> increase the default tcp_rmem values, and therefore the window scale.
> There will be some set of people with broken firewalls who trigger that
> problem for the first time by upgrading along the stable branch. While
> it's not our fault, it could cause some complaints...
It is a very valid concern.
However this is fixing a problem where we are in the wrong,
whereas the firewall issues are external and should not
block us from being able to fix our own bugs :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-17 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-12 21:11 TCP connection stops after high load Robert Iakobashvili
2007-04-12 21:15 ` David Miller
2007-04-15 12:14 ` Robert Iakobashvili
2007-04-15 15:31 ` John Heffner
2007-04-15 15:49 ` Robert Iakobashvili
2007-04-16 18:07 ` John Heffner
2007-04-16 18:51 ` Robert Iakobashvili
2007-04-16 19:11 ` John Heffner
2007-04-16 19:17 ` David Miller
2007-04-16 19:15 ` David Miller
2007-04-17 7:58 ` Robert Iakobashvili
2007-04-17 19:39 ` David Miller
2007-04-17 19:47 ` John Heffner
2007-04-17 19:51 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-04-17 19:58 ` Robert Iakobashvili
2007-04-15 13:52 ` Robert Iakobashvili
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-11 18:50 Ben Greear
2007-04-11 20:26 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-11 20:48 ` David Miller
2007-04-11 21:06 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-11 21:11 ` David Miller
2007-04-11 21:31 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-11 21:39 ` David Miller
2007-04-12 2:44 ` SANGTAE HA
2007-04-12 1:06 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2007-04-12 14:48 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 17:59 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-12 18:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-12 19:12 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-12 20:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-12 21:36 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-13 7:09 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-04-13 16:42 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-13 16:10 ` Daniel Schaffrath
2007-04-13 16:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-14 4:21 ` Herbert Xu
2007-04-14 4:25 ` David Miller
2007-04-14 5:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-14 5:37 ` David Miller
2007-04-11 20:41 ` David Miller
2007-04-12 6:12 ` Ilpo Järvinen
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