netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] tcp: fix ABC in tcp_slow

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:58:27 -0700
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	John Heffner <johnwheffner@...il.com>,
	Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] tcp: fix ABC in tcp_slow_start()

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>>
>> When/if sysctl_tcp_abc > 1, we expect to increase cwnd by 2 if the
>> received ACK acknowledges more than 2*MSS bytes, in tcp_slow_start()
>>
>> Problem is this RFC 3465 statement is not correctly coded, as
>> the while () loop increases snd_cwnd one by one.
>>
>> Add a new variable to avoid this off-by one error.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>

neal
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