netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] [TCP]: Move clearing of the prior

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Date:	Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:28:43 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] [TCP]: Move clearing of the prior_ssthresh due to
 ECE earlier

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:26:57 +0200 (EET)

> I think that doing it in the response is better that this approach,
> since it knows that the ssthresh has been halved already within that
> round-trip, so there is no need to do that again... I'll submit the
> patch tomorrow... With this prior_ssthresh clearing move alone, the 
> ssthresh ends up being halved twice if I tought it right (first in 
> tcp_enter_frto and then again in tcp_enter_cwr that is called from 
> fastretrans_alert)... So please, drop this patch.

Ok.
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