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From: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	"Arnd Hannemann" <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	shemminger@vyatta.com, "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 3/3] net: TCP thin dupack
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:50:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B76CA3B.4010206@simula.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B753943.2080800@gmail.com>

On 12. feb. 2010 12:19, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> Last year, I'm pretty sure I was on record as thinking this is *not* a
> good idea.  But at least it now requires a sysctl to turn on, and
> should default to off.
> 
> Also that naming was a bit dicey.  Now the names are more descriptive,
> but the "force" is a bit overkill.
> 
> How about:
>   NET_TCP_FORCE_THIN_LINEAR_DUPACK -> NET_TCP_THIN_LINEAR_DUPACK
>   tcp_force_thin_dupack            -> tcp_thin_linear_dupack
>   sysctl_tcp_force_thin_dupack     -> sysctl_tcp_thin_linear_dupack

You uncovered a copy/paste/edit-typo there. The term "linear" had snuck
in even though it does not make sense for this patch. I think that
NET_TCP_THIN_DUPACK, tcp_thin_dupack and sysctl_tcp_thin_dupack will
be better.

Best regards,
Andreas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-13 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-11 12:07 [net-next PATCH v3 3/3] net: TCP thin dupack Andreas Petlund
2010-02-12 11:19 ` William Allen Simpson
2010-02-12 11:43   ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-02-13 15:50   ` Andreas Petlund [this message]
2010-02-13  2:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 15:50   ` Andreas Petlund

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