netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: ECN blackhole should not force quickack mode

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Date:	Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:44:06 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	jhs@...atatu.com
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	Jim Gettys <jg@...edesktop.org>,
	Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: ECN blackhole should not force quickack mode

Le lundi 26 septembre 2011 à 08:00 -0400, jamal a écrit :
> On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 10:26 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> > This refers to additions to RFC 2481 : This was refined by RFC 3168, and
> > the retransmitted TCP packets requirement is part of the final RFC :
> 
> Ah, yes - thats where it went.
> 
> > 
> > BTW, the ECN+ proposal (RFC 5562 :  Adding Explicit Congestion
> > Notification (ECN) Capability to TCP's SYN/ACK Packets) would allow the
> > client (receiving SYNACK message with ECT flags) to set the TCP_ECN_SEEN
> > I added in my patch, allowing even the first (retransmitted) data packet
> > to trigger quickack mode.
> 
> Excellent ;->
> Are you going to add 5562 support?

I sent a private mail to Adam Langley this morning asking him if he
planned an official submission of a prior patch :  
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg03988.html

If Adam is too busy or not anymore interested, I would like to spend
some cycles on this.

Thanks


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