RedBoot tcp hack
Mark Salter
msalter@redhat.com
Mon Dec 22 16:18:00 GMT 2003
>>>>> Gary Thomas writes:
+ * src/net/tcp.c (tcp_send): Add [restore] delay into TCP write
+ path. Sadly, there seems to be some issue where some ACK packets
+ get lost unless this is present (at least on some hardware).
+ n.b. a small delay here is definitely preferable to the horrendous
+ delays imposed by TCP retries if this condition occurs.
We can't leave this in. It creates a 2ms overhead for every transmitted
tcp segment. The actual problem and a proper fix needs to be found. I've
never seen anything like described above. Could you elaborate on how to
reproduce, etc.
--Mark
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