netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: expose both send and receive intervals for rate sample

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jul 2018 11:11:45 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Deepti Raghavan <deeptir@....edu>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: expose both send and receive intervals for
 rate sample



On 07/09/2018 10:53 AM, Deepti Raghavan wrote:
> Congestion control algorithms, which access the rate sample
> through the tcp_cong_control function, only have access to the maximum
> of the send and receive interval, for cases where the acknowledgment
> rate may be inaccurate due to ACK compression or decimation. Algorithms
> may want to use send rates and receive rates as separate signals.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Deepti Raghavan <deeptir@....edu>

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

(Assuming another CC is coming soon, using this...)

Thanks