netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: remove Appropriate Byte Count support

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Message-Id: <20130205.144635.1648371589019378147.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:46:35 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ycheng@...gle.com
Cc:	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: remove Appropriate Byte Count support

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:47:59 -0800

> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
>> TCP Appropriate Byte Count was added by me, but later disabled.
>> There is no point in maintaining it since it is a potential source
>> of bugs and Linux already implements other better window protection
>> heuristics.
> +1
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>

Applied, and:

>>         tp->bytes_acked = 0;
> Is bytes_acked still needed?

I took care of this when I committed Stephen's patch.

Thanks.
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