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From:   Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To:     Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch] TCP throughput after 2.2.17-pre1
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:54:55PM +0200, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andi's patch works for me.  I've attached the 2.2.17-pre4 version here.
> 
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > and also
> > the new code path waking on the socket kfreeing a buffer.
> 
> He didn't appear to do that bit.  It just polls.

It does actually. The schedule_timeout(1) will be woken earlier with
the kfree_skb wakeup.


-Andi