netdev - Re: TCP and reordering

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Message-Id: <20121127.210611.1127622873924794001.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:06:11 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	saku@...i.fi
Cc:	rick.jones2@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP and reordering

From: Saku Ytti <saku@...i.fi>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:15:20 +0200

> TCP used to be friendly to reordering before fast retransmit
> optimization was implemented.

You're talking about 20 years ago, because that's when fast
retrasnmit was created.

It's not like this got added recently.

And the gains of fast retransmit far outweigh whatever strange
justification would give for reordering packets on purpose.
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