netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tcp: refresh tcp_mstamp from timers callbacks

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Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:10:18 -0500
From:   Mike Maloney <maloneykernel@...il.com>
To:     Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.kdev@...il.com>
Cc:     Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mike Maloney <maloney@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: refresh tcp_mstamp from timers callbacks

Acked-by:  Mike Maloney <maloney@...gle.com>

Thanks for the quick fix!

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
<soheil.kdev@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>>> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>>>
>>> Only the retransmit timer currently refreshes tcp_mstamp
>>>
>>> We should do the same for delayed acks and keepalives.
>>>
>>> Even if RFC 7323 does not request it, this is consistent to what linux
>>> did in the past, when TS values were based on jiffies.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 385e20706fac ("tcp: use tp->tcp_mstamp in output path")
>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>>> Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
>>> Cc: Mike Maloney <maloney@...gle.com>
>>> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
>>
>> Thanks, Eric!
>>
>> neal
>
> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
>
> This is a very nice catch! Thank you Eric!