netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: detect loss above high

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jan 2012 10:54:03 -0800
From:	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
To:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, ncardwell@...gle.com,
	nanditad@...gle.com, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: detect loss above high_seq in recovery

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Ilpo Järvinen
<ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Yuchung Cheng wrote:
>
>> To summarize:
>> 1) this change does NOT forbid TCP performing further CWR on new losses
>> 2) this change (merely) marks some forward-retransmitted packets LOST.
>> 3) the commit message is to be explicit that CWR may not always be performed,
>>     in both my change and current kernel.
>
> I agree with these points. I wonder if you intend to look to fixing the
> lacking CWR problem or should I look to that once I get some spare time?
>
>> HTH. I will update commit message if people can make sense of it :)
>
> Please do.
Great, I'll update the commit message first, and work on another
feature patch that does CWR if
a) new sequence is lost
b) a retransmission is lost
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