Re: [RFC PATCH net-2.6.24 0/3]: Attempt to fix lost_retrans brokeness

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:03:29 +0300 (EEST)

> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> 
> > Lost_retrans handling of sacktag was found to be flawed, two
> > problems that were found have an intertwined solution. Fastpath
> > problem has existed since hints got added and the other problem
> > has probably been there even longer than that. ...This change
> > may add non-trivial processing cost.
> > 
> > Initial sketch, only compile tested. This will become more and
> > more useful, when sacktag starts to process less and less skbs,
> > which hopefully happens quite soon... :-) Sadly enough it will
> > probably then be consuming part of the benefits we're able to
> > achieve by less skb walking...
> > 
> > First one is trivial, so Dave might want to apply it already.
> 
> Hmm, forgot to add -n to git-format-patch. Since it's currently
> RFC, I won't bother to resubmit with numbers unless somebody
> really wants that. Here's the correct ordering, if it's not
> obvious from the patches alone:

I'm going to leave the 2nd patches and 3rd patches alone for
now so they can cook a little bit longer.

Thanks!