netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: frto should not set snd

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Date:	Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:01:13 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	ncardwell@...gle.com, ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, pasik@....fi,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ycheng@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: frto should not set snd_cwnd to 0

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:13:05 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Commit 9dc274151a548 (tcp: fix ABC in tcp_slow_start())
> uncovered a bug in FRTO code :
> tcp_process_frto() is setting snd_cwnd to 0 if the number
> of in flight packets is 0.
> 
> As Neal pointed out, if no packet is in flight we lost our
> chance to disambiguate whether a loss timeout was spurious.
> 
> We should assume it was a proper loss.
> 
> Reported-by: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@....fi>
> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied.
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