linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 62/70] tcp: convert cached rtt from usec to jiffies when feeding initial rto

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Message-Id: <1458158763-9614-63-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2016 13:05:55 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 62/70] tcp: convert cached rtt from usec to jiffies when feeding initial rto

v3.19.8-ckt17 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>

commit 9bdfb3b79e61c60e1a3e2dc05ad164528afa6b8a upstream.

Currently it's converted into msecs, thus HZ=1000 intact.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Fixes: 740b0f1841f6 ("tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
index ed9c9a9..c90e76c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ reset:
 	 */
 	if (crtt > tp->srtt_us) {
 		/* Set RTO like tcp_rtt_estimator(), but from cached RTT. */
-		crtt /= 8 * USEC_PER_MSEC;
+		crtt /= 8 * USEC_PER_SEC / HZ;
 		inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = crtt + max(2 * crtt, tcp_rto_min(sk));
 	} else if (tp->srtt_us == 0) {
 		/* RFC6298: 5.7 We've failed to get a valid RTT sample from
-- 
2.7.0