From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hoyt Subject: Re: CVE-2009-4537 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:27:06 +1300 Message-ID: <7c93bf1e1003281827x7565b0bds1c18d23d1607540e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100327142100.38d21565.michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> <20100327.103407.260084965.davem@davemloft.net> <20100327.103600.246539458.davem@davemloft.net> <20100329005046.GA2157@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:47910 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755460Ab0C2B1H (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:27:07 -0400 Received: by pwi5 with SMTP id 5so6224921pwi.19 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:27:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100329005046.GA2157@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi netdev, We're working on some TCP networking stuff where the key is low latency -- in other words, we don't really care about data throughput, but rather getting the end-to-end TCP packet transfer time down. I know there's quite a few networking folks and kernel hackers on this list, so I thought I'd see if anyone was interested (or knows someone who might be interested) in doing a few hours of consultancy work to give us some pointers on this. I'm a competent programmer, but kernel-level network programming is not my area of expertise. I'm happy to receive some pointers via this list -- and others might benefit from that too -- but I'm also keen on some dedicated consultancy hours if anyone's interested. Thanks, Ben.