netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix SYN-data space mis-accounting

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Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:23:21 -0500
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix SYN-data space mis-accounting

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com> wrote:
> In fast open the sender unncessarily reduces the space available
> for data in SYN by 12 bytes.  This is because in the sender
> incorrectly reserves space for TS option twice in tcp_send_syn_data():
> tcp_mtu_to_mss() already accounts for TS option space. But it further
> reserves MAX_TCP_OPTION_SPACE when computing the payload space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
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