netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: tcp_rack_reo_timeout() must update tp->tcp

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Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:10:22 -0400
From:   Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: tcp_rack_reo_timeout() must update tp->tcp_mstamp

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
> I wrongly assumed tp->tcp_mstamp was up to date at the time
> tcp_rack_reo_timeout() was called.
>
> It is not true, since we only update tcp->tcp_mstamp when receiving
> a packet (as initially done in commit 69e996c58a35 ("tcp: add
> tp->tcp_mstamp field")
>
> tcp_rack_reo_timeout() being called by a timer and not an incoming
> packet, we need to refresh tp->tcp_mstamp
>
> Fixes: 7c1c7308592f ("tcp: do not pass timestamp to tcp_rack_detect_loss()")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>

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

Thanks!

neal