Re: [tipc-discussion] Link level packet loss

[Erik H. <eri...@er...>]

> Reseting link is not a good idea. If we are not in the worst case, we
> definitely don't do that.
This is actually a worst case.
We have dropped packets that are already acked before they are delivered 
to user (all frags have not been received yet) we cannot recover from 
this situation.

> I also cannot understand why link_check_defragm_bufs() is used. We
> should not flush acked packets in general except that its link will be
> reset.
>

Either we have to reset the link, or we remove the checking of stale 
defragm_bufs.

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