netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 6/8] sctp: teach CACC algorithm about removed transports

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Message-Id: <20110419.214735.52170069.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:47:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yjwei@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 6/8] sctp: teach CACC algorithm about
 removed transports

From: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:13:56 +0800

> From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
> 
> When we have have to remove a transport due to ASCONF, we move
> the data to a new active path.  This can trigger CACC algorithm
> to not mark that data as missing when SACKs arrive.  This is
> because the transport passed to the CACC algorithm is the one
> this data is sitting on, not the one it was sent on (that one
> may be gone).  So, by sending the original transport (even if
> it's NULL), we may start marking data as missing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>

Applied.
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