netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 18952] New: The mount of SYN retries is not equal to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn

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Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:52:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	damian@....rwth-aachen.de
Cc:	yuri@...nteg.net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 18952] New: The mount of SYN retries is not
 equal to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries

From: Damian Lukowski <damian@....rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:00:08 +0200

> My suggestion for solving this issue:
> Introducing a third boolean parameter for retransmits_timed_out()
> indicating whether the socket is in SYN state or not. In the SYN case, 
> TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT will be used for the calculation instead of
> TCP_RTO_MIN.
> 
> Is that ok?

Sounds fine to me, please prepare a patch.

Thanks!
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