Perhaps somebody else can test it?
Sorry for the delay in responding.
On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On 6 Apr 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Could you check if this more minimal patch does the same thing? (against
> a clean 1.3.84)
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> int linux/include/net/tcp.h, line 207 or so, remove the two lines that say
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> if (window >= MAX_WINDOW/2)
> return 0;
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> Does that much smaller diff also make the performance ok again too?
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> Linus
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