From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:42:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix potential local deadlock during fetch-pack
Message-ID: <AANLkTikCRRftjExdhMgFGFMy-Dc1UCMdW1nTYV2bK1-T@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vtyelsvp0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> The fetch-pack/upload-pack protocol relies on the underlying transport
> (local pipe or TCP socket) to have enough slack to allow one window worth
> of data in flight without blocking the writer.  Traditionally we always
> relied on being able to have a batch of 32 "have"s in flight (roughly 1.5k
> bytes) to stream.
>

Hmm, this explanation makes me wonder: Could this be related to the
deadlock we're experiencing with git-push over the git-protocol on
Windows when side-band-64k is enabled?