netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] remove FACK loss recovery

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Date:   Sat, 11 Nov 2017 18:53:32 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ycheng@...gle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, ncardwell@...gle.com,
        soheil@...gle.com, priyarjha@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] remove FACK loss recovery

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Date: Wed,  8 Nov 2017 13:01:25 -0800

> This patch set removes the forward-acknowledgment (FACK)
> packet-based loss and reordering detection. This simplifies TCP
> loss recovery since the SACK scoreboard no longer needs to track
> the number of pending packets under highest SACKed sequence. FACK
> is subsumed by the time-based RACK loss detection which is more
> robust under reordering and second order losses.

Series applied, thank you.