netdev - Re: [PATCHv2, 1/1] tcp: accommodate sequence number to a peer's shrunk receive window caused by precision loss in window scaling

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Date:   Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:44:15 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     "Cui, Cheng" <Cheng.Cui@...app.com>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2, 1/1] tcp: accommodate sequence number to a peer's
 shrunk receive window caused by precision loss in window scaling

On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 17:04 +0000, Cui, Cheng wrote:
> Prevent sending out a left-shifted sequence number from a Linux sender in 
> response to a peer's shrunk receive-window caused by losing least significant
> bits in window-scaling.
> 
> 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: Cheng Cui <Cheng.Cui@...app.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>