From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Borkmann Subject: Re: [Bug 94991] New: TCP bug creates additional RTO in very specific condition Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:53:11 +0100 Message-ID: <55086A07.9080309@iogearbox.net> References: <20150317083333.65b7af40@urahara> <20150317.134443.687799973483992041.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stephen@networkplumber.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, matiasb@gmail.com, ycheng@google.com, edumazet@google.com To: David Miller , ncardwell@google.com Return-path: Received: from www62.your-server.de ([213.133.104.62]:42235 "EHLO www62.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753201AbbCQSOV (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:14:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150317.134443.687799973483992041.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/17/2015 06:44 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Neal Cardwell > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:49:49 -0400 > >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Stephen Hemminger >> wrote: >>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94991 >>> Bug ID: 94991 >>> Summary: TCP bug creates additional RTO in very specific >>> condition >> >> Thanks for forwarding. I posted the following on the bug: >> >> 2.6.32 is over 5 years old (Dec 2009). I suspect this bug is in the >> old FRTO code that Yuchung removed when he rewrote FRTO from scratch >> in 2013. Can you please test a newer version of the kernel (preferably >> 3.19 but at least 3.12 or newer) to see if this bug is still around? >> Thanks! > > Stephen, if you're processing networking bugzilla entries in the > future, don't even forward 2.6.x based stuff to the list please. That's btw a RHEL6 kernel it seems (2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64). Matias, you would need to open a BZ at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ for RHEL6 kernel component.