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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP stalls in current git, possibly splice related
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:49:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070718104916.GJ11657@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184711770.4658.5.camel@johannes.berg>

On Wed, Jul 18 2007, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 14:02 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > Yep, it's a sender thing, so upgrading the receiver will not change
> > anything.
> 
> Ok, I upgraded, but that didn't help. And in fact, I don't see how it
> could have since synergy doesn't use splice or sendfile. I should've
> thought of that right away, sorry.
> 
> It seems that packets are actually coming in during the time that my
> mouse hangs though (ran wireshark in parallel and saw no pauses in the
> timeline.) Hence, it actually seems to be on the receiver side, and
> running the synergy client under strace reveals that during the time my
> mouse hangs it's in poll() waiting for input on the tcp socket. sysrg-t
> doesn't show anything useful, it's just scheduling waiting for data.
> According to wireshark data is sent, but it never shows up at the
> application layer.

OK, then we can put splice off the hook at least :-)

If it's easily reproducible (and it sounds like it), then a git bisect
might be the easiest way forward.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-18 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-12 20:12 TCP stalls in current git, possibly splice related James Morris
2007-07-12 20:52 ` David Miller
2007-07-13  2:26   ` James Morris
2007-07-13  5:36     ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-13  6:26       ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-13  9:25         ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-13 10:02 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-13 11:05   ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-13 12:23     ` James Morris
2007-07-13 21:55     ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-16  8:45     ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-16 12:02       ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-17 22:36         ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-18 10:49           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2007-07-18 10:58             ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-18 21:24               ` Johannes Berg

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