netdev - [PATCH net-2.6 2/2] [TCP]: Bidir flow must not disregard SACK blocks for lost marking

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:19:40 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-2.6 2/2] [TCP]: Bidir flow must not disregard SACK blocks
 for lost marking

It's possible that new SACK blocks that should trigger new LOST
markings arrive with new data (which previously made is_dupack
false). In addition, I think this fixes a case where we get
a cumulative ACK with enough SACK blocks to trigger the fast
recovery (is_dupack would be false there too).

I'm not completely pleased with this solution because readability
of the code is somewhat questionable as 'is_dupack' in SACK case
is no longer about dupacks only but would mean something like
'lost_marker_work_todo' too... But because of Eifel stuff done
in CA_Recovery, the FLAG_DATA_SACKED check cannot be placed to
the if statement which seems attractive solution. Nevertheless,
I didn't like adding another variable just for that either... :-)

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 767f92c..cfe6ac7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2109,7 +2109,10 @@ tcp_fastretrans_alert(struct sock *sk, u32 prior_snd_una,
 {
 	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
-	int is_dupack = (tp->snd_una == prior_snd_una && !(flag&FLAG_NOT_DUP));
+	int is_dupack = (tp->snd_una == prior_snd_una &&
+			 (!(flag&FLAG_NOT_DUP) ||
+			  ((flag&FLAG_DATA_SACKED) &&
+			   (tp->fackets_out > tp->reordering))));

 	/* Some technical things:
 	 * 1. Reno does not count dupacks (sacked_out) automatically. */
-- 
1.5.0.6