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

From: William Allen Simpson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:24:12 -0500

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.