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Gregory Nutt authored
net/socket and net/tcp: Fix a problem in whent there are multiple network devices. Polls were being sent to all TCP sockets before. This is not good because it means that packets may sometimes be sent out on the wrong device. That is inefficient because it will cause retransmissions and bad performance. But, worse, when one of the devices is not Ethernet, it will have a different MSS and, as a result, incorrect data transfers can cause crashes. The fix is to lock into a single device once the MSS is locked locked down.
b1e09d48Gregory Nutt authorednet/socket and net/tcp: Fix a problem in whent there are multiple network devices. Polls were being sent to all TCP sockets before. This is not good because it means that packets may sometimes be sent out on the wrong device. That is inefficient because it will cause retransmissions and bad performance. But, worse, when one of the devices is not Ethernet, it will have a different MSS and, as a result, incorrect data transfers can cause crashes. The fix is to lock into a single device once the MSS is locked locked down.
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