From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TCP]: Make snd_cwnd_cnt 32-bit Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:01:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20071015.130116.24317163.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:33538 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756073AbXJOUBM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:01:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org =46rom: "Ilpo_J=E4rvinen" Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:31 +0300 (EEST) >=20 > Very little point of having 32-bit snd_cnwd if this is not > 32-bit as well, as a number of snd_cwnd incrementation formulas > assume that snd_cwnd_cnt can be at least as large as snd_cwnd. >=20 > Whether 32-bit is useful was discussed when e0ef57cc56c3c96 > was made: > http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-netdev&m=3D117218144409825&w=3D2 >=20 > Signed-off-by: Ilpo J=E4rvinen Applied, and I intend to push this to -stable as well. Thanks!