netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] tcp: fixes some congestion control corner cases

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Message-Id: <20150709.142315.1972696129360030817.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:23:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ycheng@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, vanj@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] tcp: fixes some congestion control corner
 cases

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Date: Thu,  9 Jul 2015 13:16:28 -0700

> This patch series fixes corner cases of TCP congestion control.
> First issue is to avoid continuing slow start when cwnd reaches ssthresh.
> Second issue is incorrectly processing order of congestion state and
> cwnd update when entering fast recovery or undoing cwnd.
> 
> Yuchung Cheng (3):
>   tcp: add tcp_in_slow_start helper
>   tcp: do not slow start when cwnd equals ssthresh
>   tcp: update congestion state first before raising cwnd

This helper function is long overdue, nice work.

Series applied, thanks!
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