Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:24:12 -0500 | From | William Allen Simpson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestamp bugs |
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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.
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