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Re: 2.6.10 TCP troubles -- suggested patch

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.6.10 TCP troubles -- suggested patch
From: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:13:23 +0300
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>, hubert.tonneau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, niv@xxxxxxxxxx, rick.jones2@xxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Hello!

> How mind boggling a heuristic.  I bet it works by accident rather
> than intention and purposeful design.

Yup. It is definitely not an "ack avoidance algorithm" :-) :-)

BTW it is still a puzzle why 2.6.9 works. With disabled TSO it should
insert PSHs quite rarely, similarly to tso.

And it is still a puzzle how that bunch of PSHless segments not followed
by PSH appeared in TSO case.

Alexey

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