netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] tcp: make is_dupack a parameter to tcp_fastretrans

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1111170323020.1205@melkinpaasi.cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:23:53 +0200 (EET)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@...gle.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] tcp: make is_dupack a parameter to
 tcp_fastretrans_alert()

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Neal Cardwell wrote:

> Allow callers to decide whether an ACK is a duplicate ACK. This is a
> prerequisite to allowing fastretrans_alert to be called from new
> contexts, such as the no_queue and old_ack code paths, from which we
> have extra info that tells us whether an ACK is a dupack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

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