Re: Assertions when lowering tcp_tso_win_divisor

[Sridhar Samudrala <sri@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, David S. Miller wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:00:21 -0800 (PST)
> Sridhar Samudrala <sri@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Thanks
Sridhar