Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc2-mm3-S5

From: K.R. Foley (kr_at_cybsft.com)
Date: 09/24/04

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    Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:05:52 -0500
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

    Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > * K.R. Foley <kr@cybsft.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>The following, on top of Ingo's patch above, fixes the problem with
    >>dropping new connections and doesn't have any adverse affects that
    >>I've seen:
    >>
    >>--- linux-2.6.9-rc2-pre-mm3/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c.orig 2004-09-23
    >>22:16:42.249435870 -0500
    >>+++ linux-2.6.9-rc2-pre-mm3/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c 2004-09-23
    >>22:12:03.911811945 -0500
    >>@@ -699,11 +699,6 @@
    >>
    >> tcp_minshall_update(tp, mss_now, skb);
    >> sent_pkts = 1;
    >>- /*
    >>- * Break out early - we'll continue later:
    >>- */
    >>- if (softirq_need_resched())
    >>- break;
    >
    >
    > hm, ok, i'll revert this in my tree. I suspect we'll see some latencies
    > resurfacing under high network load again, but correctness goes first
    > obviously. If then we'll have to find some other method to break that
    > critical path.
    >
    > Ingo
    >
    Ingo,

    Maybe this wasn't the right way to fix the problem? I just looked at the
    S4 patch and it had the same change in it, but did not exhibit the same
    problem. Not knowing exactly what I was looking for, I just started
    looking for obvious changes that might affect dropping tcp connections
    and this one seemed reasonable. I made the change and the problem went
    away. Maybe this needs looking at a little closer.

    kr
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