netdev - Re: [RFC PATCHv5 3/5] [TCP]: Reworked recovery's TCPCB

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Date:	Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:09:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv5 3/5] [TCP]: Reworked recovery's TCPCB_LOST
 marking functions

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:41:04 +0200

> Complete rewrite for update_scoreboard and mark_head_lost. Couple
> of hints became unnecessary because of this change, NewReno code
> was greatly simplified. I changed !TCPCB_TAGBITS check from the
> original to a !(S|L) check but it shouldn't make a difference,
> and if there ever is a R only skb TCP will mark it as LOST too
> that is a correct behavior (IMHO). The algorithm uses some ideas
> presented by David Miller and Baruch Even.
> 
> This patch provides an unoptimized version.
> 
> Seqno lookups require fast lookups that are provided using
> RB-tree patch (which is nowadays included into the latest
> net-2.6.22).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Ok, sorry it took so long to review this, but it looks like it
will work, patch applied.

Thanks!
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