netdev - Re: [PATCH net] rds: tcp: compute m_ack_seq as offset from ->write

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:44:08 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rds: tcp: compute m_ack_seq as offset from
 ->write_seq

From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:11:07 -0800

> rds-tcp uses m_ack_seq to track the tcp ack# that indicates
> that the peer has received a rds_message. The m_ack_seq is
> used in rds_tcp_is_acked() to figure out when it is safe to
> drop the rds_message from the RDS retransmit queue.
> 
> The m_ack_seq must be calculated as an offset from the right 
> edge of the in-flight tcp buffer, i.e., it should be based on 
> the ->write_seq, not the ->snd_nxt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks Sowmini.