netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: properly send new data in fast recovery in first RTT

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Date:	Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:47:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	ncardwell@...gle.com, ycheng@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	nanditad@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: properly send new data in fast recovery
 in first RTT

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:57:55 -0700

> On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 19:56 -0400, Neal Cardwell wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com> wrote:
>> > Linux sends new unset data during disorder and recovery state if all
>> > (suspected) lost packets have been retransmitted ( RFC5681, section
>> > 3.2 step 1 & 2, RFC3517 section 4, NexSeg() Rule 2).  One requirement
>> > is to keep the receive window about twice the estimated sender's
>> > congestion window (tcp_rcv_space_adjust()), assuming the fast
>> > retransmits repair the losses in the next round trip.
>> >
>> > But currently it's not the case on the first round trip in either
>> > normal or Fast Open connection, beucase the initial receive window
>> > is identical to (expected) sender's initial congestion window. The
>> > fix is to double it.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
>> 
>> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> 
> Yes, this is indeed a very nice catch, thanks Yuchung !
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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