Re: Assertions when lowering tcp_tso_win_divisor

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>]

Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:00:21 -0800 (PST)
>>Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Unfortunately as we cannot upgrade to 2.6.10-rc2
>>
>>This doesn't work.  You cannot expect upstream maintainers
>>to work with you if you're not willing to or able to
>>try things out with the latest kernels.
>>
>>I have an inkling as to the reason why you're restricted
>>in this way, which is that you're limited to some vendor's
>>kernel.  Am I right?
> 
> 
> Yes. You are right. It is a vendor kernel based on 2.6.9 along
> with some vendor specific kernel patches.
> I agree that it is not always possible to support older kernels
> and i was not expecting you to do that.
> I tried to do this myself by identifying the tso related patches
> that went in after 2.6.9 and just wanted to find out if i missed
> any other patches that may have fixed the tso related assertions.
> 
> We will try to see if this problem can be reproduced with
> 2.6.10-rc2.

That will help figuring out the problem, even if afterwards you
continue using 2.6.9, by determining if the problem was solved already
8) i.e. it may be another bug, not the tso related ones solved in
2.6.10-rc2.

- Arnaldo