netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] tcp: exponential backoff in tcp_send

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Message-Id: <20200930.142148.1134782126816389752.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:21:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, soheil@...gle.com, ncardwell@...gle.com,
        ycheng@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] tcp: exponential backoff in tcp_send_ack()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 05:54:55 -0700

> We had outages caused by repeated skb allocation failures in tcp_send_ack()
> 
> It is time to add exponential backoff to reduce number of attempts.
> Before doing so, first patch removes icsk_ack.blocked to make
> room for a new field (icsk_ack.retry)

Series applied, thanks Eric.