[TCP Bug]The snd_cwnd is set to very very large size.

Hello, Brief Description: In the loss recovery phase, when a retransmit packet get lost, the sender will finally timeout. Then, after the sender receives the the ack packet that acked the retransmitted packet, in certain situations, the sender will regard the ack as an partial ack, wher

Re: Another question on locking...

The locking in the -CURRENT tree for the socket stack is currently incomplete; something we hope greatly to remedy on the way to 5.2-RELEASE. So currently all this code runs under the Giant lock, which is why it's safe. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL

Another question on locking...

Hi, Looking at the code in uipc_socket.c and udp_usrreq.c I am a bit confused as to how the locking mechanism works between the sockets and the protocols. The socket calls all occur under Giant, which the protocols do not deal with, and the protocols all lo