netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: expose both send and receive intervals for rate sample

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jul 2018 14:09:18 -0400
From:   Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:     deeptir@....edu
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: expose both send and receive intervals for
 rate sample

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 1:58 PM Deepti Raghavan <deeptir@....edu> wrote:
>
> Congestion control algorithms, which access the rate sample
> through the tcp_cong_control function, only have access to the maximum
> of the send and receive interval, for cases where the acknowledgment
> rate may be inaccurate due to ACK compression or decimation. Algorithms
> may want to use send rates and receive rates as separate signals.
>
> Signed-off-by: Deepti Raghavan <deeptir@....edu>
> ---
>  include/net/tcp.h   | 2 ++
>  net/ipv4/tcp_rate.c | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

Thanks for re-sending. It does seem to be showing up in patchwork now:
  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/941532/
And I can confirm I'm able to apply it to net-next.

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

thanks,
neal