Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] tcp: input header length, prediction, and timestampbugs

[William Allen Simpson]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 02:03:34PM -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Is this a bug fix? 
> > Yes.  One of many, all inter-related.
> It's useful to distingush bug fixes from cleanups from optimizations etc.
> ...

The bug fixes depend on the cleanups.
 * 1/7 has the new functions.
 * 2/7 has bug fixes that require the new functions.
 * 3/7 fixes (and optimizes) the incoming code path, so that
 * 4/7 can fix the bugs.
 * 5/7 is needed to test the code from part 1.
 * 6/7 is the cleanup of parsing (also fixes some bugs introduced by
   davem's patch in December), so that
 * 7/7 can fix the bugs.

I originally tried submitting these as separate individual pairs of
patches (in November, December, January), but nobody paid any attention.
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