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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: refactor tcp_retransmit_timer()
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 20:13:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191203191314.GA2734645@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191203160552.31071-1-edumazet@google.com>

On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 08:05:52AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> It appears linux-4.14 stable needs a backport of commit
> 88f8598d0a30 ("tcp: exit if nothing to retransmit on RTO timeout")
> 
> Since tcp_rtx_queue_empty() is not in pre 4.15 kernels,
> let's refactor tcp_retransmit_timer() to only use tcp_rtx_queue_head()

So does that mean that 4.19.y should get 88f8598d0a30 ("tcp: exit if
nothing to retransmit on RTO timeout") as-is?

> I will provide to stable teams the squashed patches.

This is that squashed patch, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-03 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-03 16:05 [PATCH net] tcp: refactor tcp_retransmit_timer() Eric Dumazet
2019-12-03 16:08 ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2019-12-03 19:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-12-03 19:15   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-12-03 19:22     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-03 19:30       ` Eric Dumazet
2019-12-03 20:23         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-03 19:53 ` David Miller
2019-12-03 20:23   ` Greg KH
     [not found]     ` <CANn89iKP7EZZRBtdcvFZVWP5-zs6uUWTgvo_Az+W+PKyA=rvxw@mail.gmail.com>
2019-12-03 21:15       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-03 21:18     ` David Miller

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