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

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 23:02:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     deeptir@....edu
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: expose both send and receive intervals
 for rate sample

From: Deepti Raghavan <deeptir@....edu>
Date: Mon,  9 Jul 2018 17:53:39 +0000

> 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>

Applied.