netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: set timestamps for restored skb-s

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Message-Id: <20130820.130818.1803264305462032520.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:08:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	avagin@...nvz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: set timestamps for restored skb-s

From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:04:36 +0400

> When the repair mode is turned off, the write queue seqs are
> updated so that the whole queue is considered to be 'already sent.
> 
> The "when" field must be set for such skb. It's used in tcp_rearm_rto
> for example. If the "when" field isn't set, the retransmit timeout can
> be calculated incorrectly and a tcp connected can stop for two minutes
> (TCP_RTO_MAX).
> 
> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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