Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:47:16 -0500 From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> Cc: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jim Durham <jimd@nepinc.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? Message-ID: <200112060716.fB67GwW56098@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <200112052142.fB5LgVM53167@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20011205085750.I28101-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <200112052142.fB5LgVM53167@apollo.backplane.com>
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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
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