netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v12 3/7] sch_cake: Add optional ACK filter

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Date:   Thu, 17 May 2018 04:56:26 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...e.dk>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     cake@...ts.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v12 3/7] sch_cake: Add optional ACK filter



On 05/17/2018 04:23 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:

> 
> We don't do full parsing of SACKs, no; we were trying to keep things
> simple... We do detect the presence of SACK options, though, and the
> presence of SACK options on an ACK will make previous ACKs be considered
> redundant.
> 

But they are not redundant in some cases, particularly when reorders happen in the network.