netdev - Re: Fix FRTO+NewReno problem (Was: Re: This has a work around)

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2008 21:23:18 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	"Damon L. Chesser" <damon@...tek.com>
cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix FRTO+NewReno problem (Was: Re: This has a work around)

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote:

> Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> >
> > ...Can you please send a dump about working case too, this seems rather
> > nasty device to work with (tcp_frto = 0 is enough to attain it, no need to
> > have another kernel booted for that) and I'm interested to see what are the
> > loss rates without FRTO...
> >
> >
> Attached is the compressed "good" test with tcp_frto = 0.  Sorry about the
> size, I did not think to compress the earlier ones.  Five test pages printed,
> no errors.  I will get a new kernel compiled shortly, and tested as you
> requested.

...Thanks, I'll have a look.

There was no need to compress the earlier ones as they were not that 
large, but I realized after asking that one might hit netdev size cutter 
without compression when things worked, thus compression :-).

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 i.