netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp_bbr: update comments to reflect pacing_margin

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Date:   Thu, 08 Nov 2018 20:46:36 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ncardwell@...gle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ycheng@...gle.com, soheil@...gle.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp_bbr: update comments to reflect
 pacing_margin_percent

From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Date: Thu,  8 Nov 2018 21:54:00 -0500

> Recently, in commit ab408b6dc744 ("tcp: switch tcp and sch_fq to new
> earliest departure time model"), the TCP BBR code switched to a new
> approach of using an explicit bbr_pacing_margin_percent for shaving a
> pacing rate "haircut", rather than the previous implict
> approach. Update an old comment to reflect the new approach.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied.