Re: TCP push sometimes missing under 2.2.5?

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:31:57 +1200


On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 03:54:59PM -0700, David Miller wrote:

> It's not going to stop us from putting in the fix, but the issue is
> that register pressure is extremely high in that routine, and this
> change causes many more local variables to live on the stack
> instead of in hard registers.

So why put in the fix? Are we actually doing anything wrong? And as
you point out, the register pressure might not be a good thing
considering how many register the x86 has...

-cw

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