Re: PPP is slow (and so is TCP!) [with fixes]

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
Sat, 13 Apr 1996 13:28:13 +0300 (EET DST)


Here are my current patches against 1.3.87 if you want to test them out.
The new thing is just that I had forgotten to remove my test-patches for
tcp_reset_xmit_timer() (I initially tried to use the same timer for
delayed acks, but decided that it was too ugly for words and that I could
never be certain that it really worked correctly). Those are removed
here (I hadn't meant for them to ever show up in any real kernel, Oops).

Linus

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