netdev - [PATCH RESEND net-2.6] [TCP] FRTO: Add missing ECN CWR sending to one of the responses

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Date:	Fri, 18 May 2007 12:15:21 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RESEND net-2.6] [TCP] FRTO: Add missing ECN CWR sending to
 one of the responses

The conservative spurious RTO response did not queue CWR even
though the sending rate was lowered. Whenever reduction happens
regardless of reason, CWR should be sent (forgetting to send it
is not very fatal though).

A better approach would be to queue CWR when one of the sending
rate reducing responses (rate-halving one or this conservative
response) is used already at RTO. Doing that would allow CWR to
be sent along with the two new data segments that are sent
during FRTO. However, it's a bit "racy" because userland could
tune the response sysctl to a more aggressive one in between.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 7641b27..7ecdc89 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2608,6 +2608,7 @@ static void tcp_conservative_spur_to_response(struct tcp_sock *tp)
 {
 	tp->snd_cwnd = min(tp->snd_cwnd, tp->snd_ssthresh);
 	tp->snd_cwnd_cnt = 0;
+	TCP_ECN_queue_cwr(tp);
 	tcp_moderate_cwnd(tp);
 }

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