netdev - Re: [net-next 1/1] tipc: simplify stale link failure criteria

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:34:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, gordan.mihaljevic@...tech.com.au,
        tung.q.nguyen@...tech.com.au, hoang.h.le@...tech.com.au,
        canh.d.luu@...tech.com.au, ying.xue@...driver.com,
        tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [net-next 1/1] tipc: simplify stale link failure criteria

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:36:43 +0200

> In commit a4dc70d46cf1 ("tipc: extend link reset criteria for stale
> packet retransmission") we made link retransmission failure events
> dependent on the link tolerance, and not only of the number of failed
> retransmission attempts, as we did earlier. This works well. However,
> keeping the original, additional criteria of 99 failed retransmissions
> is now redundant, and may in some cases lead to failure detection
> times in the order of minutes instead of the expected 1.5 sec link
> tolerance value.
> 
> We now remove this criteria altogether.
> 
> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>

Applied.