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

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Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:40:58 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, ncardwell@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix SYN-data space mis-accounting

On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 10:59 -0800, Yuchung Cheng 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: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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