Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Apr 1996 01:27:05 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Fix for SLOW PPP Bug | From | (Christoph Lameter) |
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Sorry Linus I am on vacation in Germany a continent away from my development machines. No chance of doing anything right now.
Perhaps somebody else can test it?
Sorry for the delay in responding.
On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On 6 Apr 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > I have tried to isolate when this bug was introduced and found that > > 1.3.72 works fine but 1.3.73 has the problem. I noticed some ACK changes > > in net/ipv4/tcp.c and made some diffs to revert those changes. > > > > I applied the following patch to 1.3.73 and 1.3.84. The bug disppeared in both > > Kernel versions. > > Could you check if this more minimal patch does the same thing? (against > a clean 1.3.84) > > int linux/include/net/tcp.h, line 207 or so, remove the two lines that say > > if (window >= MAX_WINDOW/2) > return 0; > > Does that much smaller diff also make the performance ok again too? > > Linus > >
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