netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] tcp: fix ABC in tcp_slow

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:13:34 -0700
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	stephen.hemminger@...tta.com, ycheng@...gle.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	therbert@...gle.com, shemminger@...tta.com, johnwheffner@...il.com,
	nanditad@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] tcp: fix ABC in tcp_slow_start()

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:02 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:01:43 -0700
>
>> TCP ABC was an experiment that failed. It solves a problem that does
>> not exist on Linux. I did the implementation mostly to prove that.
>>
>> Perhaps it abc should just be removed?
>
> This is my impression as well.

Removing ABC sounds good to me as well.

neal
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