From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 5 17:47:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3123A37B41D; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:47:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (xolaptop.int [192.168.5.9] (may be forged)) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.11.6/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB67GwW56098; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 02:16:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Message-Id: <200112060716.fB67GwW56098@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Durham To: Matthew Dillon , Lamont Granquist Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:47:16 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: Mike Barcroft , Jim Durham , Jordan Hubbard , References: <20011205085750.I28101-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <200112052142.fB5LgVM53167@apollo.backplane.com> In-Reply-To: <200112052142.fB5LgVM53167@apollo.backplane.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 05 December 2001 04:42 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > These changes are performance fixes, not security fixes. I consider > them fairly significant performance fixes, but these bugs have been in > the TCP stack for literally a whole year without an outcry so I don't > see much justification for putting them into the security branch. > > -Matt I have no axe to grind on this at all. It just appeared to me that a lot of folks must be in similar circumstances to mine. I have to keep 5 4.x servers up 24x7 and I don't normally need anything except really reliable service for mail, NFS, samba, etc, which the -RELEASE branch gives me in spades. Going to -stable is just a little to "avant-gard" for us! However, having the kind of increase in network performance that you achieved would really be favorable for our network, as I have drives mounted via SMB over several thousand miles of network. There must be, I thought, others in the same situation that would love to have that stuff in 4.4-RELEASE, but I can understand if the consensus is otherwise. So, I will probably just put the patches into 4.4-RELEASE, and give it a try on my "test" box here at home before putting the changes into the 4.4's at work. I appreciate the hard work. Thanks. -- Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message