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From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Developers <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestamp bugs
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:24:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B79BB7C.6020507@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100215191548.GH21783@one.firstfloor.org>

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 02:03:34PM -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> Is this a bug fix? 
>>>
>> Yes.  One of many, all inter-related.
>>
> It's useful to distingush bug fixes from cleanups from optimizations etc.
> ...

The bug fixes depend on the cleanups.
  * 1/7 has the new functions.
  * 2/7 has bug fixes that require the new functions.
  * 3/7 fixes (and optimizes) the incoming code path, so that
  * 4/7 can fix the bugs.
  * 5/7 is needed to test the code from part 1.
  * 6/7 is the cleanup of parsing (also fixes some bugs introduced by
    davem's patch in December), so that
  * 7/7 can fix the bugs.

I originally tried submitting these as separate individual pairs of
patches (in November, December, January), but nobody paid any attention.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-15 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-15 12:23 [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup updated to 2.6.33-rc8 (again) William Allen Simpson
2010-02-15 12:25 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] net: tcp_header_len_th and tcp_option_len_th William Allen Simpson
2010-02-15 12:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] net: remove old tcp_optlen function William Allen Simpson
2010-02-15 12:28 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] tcp: harmonize tcp_vx_rcv header length assumptions William Allen Simpson
2010-02-15 12:48   ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-15 12:59     ` William Allen Simpson
2010-02-15 12:31 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestamp bugs William Allen Simpson
2010-02-15 15:10   ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-15 19:03     ` William Allen Simpson
2010-02-15 19:15       ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-15 21:24         ` William Allen Simpson [this message]
2010-02-15 21:24   ` [PATCH v5 " William Allen Simpson
2010-02-15 12:34 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] TCPCT part 2e: accept SYNACK data William Allen Simpson
2010-02-15 12:41 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] TCPCT part 2f: cleanup tcp_parse_options William Allen Simpson
2010-02-15 12:45 ` [PATCH v7 7/7] TCPCT part 2g: parse cookie pair and 64-bit timestamp William Allen Simpson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-02-14  6:01 [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup updated to 2.6.33-rc8 William Allen Simpson
2010-02-14  6:21 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestamp bugs William Allen Simpson
2010-02-17 23:50   ` David Miller
2010-02-02 16:08 [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup updated to 2.6.33-rc6 William Allen Simpson
2010-02-02 16:28 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestamp bugs William Allen Simpson
2010-01-23  5:27 [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup updated to 2.6.33-rc5 William Allen Simpson
2010-01-23  6:02 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestamp bugs William Allen Simpson

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