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Date:      Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:19:02 -0800
From:      Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>
To:        Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, <net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: I have delayed ACK problems
Message-ID:  <p05100104b6bdb7b22391@[10.1.10.113]>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0101252250480.10921-100000@husten.security.at12.de>
References:   <Pine.BSF.4.32.0101252250480.10921-100000@husten.security.at12.de>

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At 11:19 PM +0100 1/25/01, Paul Herman wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
>>  <<On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:14:03 -0600 (CST), Jonathan Lemon 
>><jlemon@flugsvamp.com> said:
>>
>>  The important part was the
>>	if (callout_pending(tp->tt_delack)) {
>>		...
>>		tp->t_flags |= TF_ACKNOW;
>>	}
>>
>>  bit.  This causes us to ack immediately where previously we would just
>>  delay an already-schedule delayed ack.
>
>Yep, that does it.  Simple.  Elegant.  I see now why my (bloated
>unintelligible) patch worked, it also didn't reset the timer when a
>delayed ack might have already been pending.
>
>OK, there are other parts of the code that do the same thing
>(TCP_REASS, SYN was ACKed, et. al.) but if no one objects, I'll
>send-pr the patch to be commited.

Was there ever a final resolution to this problem? I checked CVS and 
there didn't appear to be any code changes made as a result of this 
discussion. If this was a real problem, I'm wondering whether it 
should be checked into -current and considered for MFC into 4.3.

Thanks,
Mark

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