netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 1/3] tcp: replace cnt & rtt with struct in pkts

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:46:50 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@...com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 1/3] tcp: replace cnt & rtt with struct
 in pkts_acked()

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 21:21 -0700, Lawrence Brakmo wrote:
> Replace 2 arguments (cnt and rtt) in the congestion control modules'
> pkts_acked() function with a struct. This will allow adding more
> information without having to modify existing congestion control
> modules (tcp_nv in particular needs bytes in flight when packet
> was sent).
> 
> This was proposed by Neal Cardwell in his comments to the tcp_nv patch.

Are you sure Neal suggested to pass a struct as argument ?

It was probably a struct pointer instead.


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