netdev - [PATCH net-next 0/2] more accurate DSACK processing for RACK-TLP

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Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 10:42:56 -0400
From:   Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/2] more accurate DSACK processing for RACK-TLP

This patch series includes two minor improvements to tighten up the accuracy of
the processing of incoming DSACK information, so that RACK-TLP behavior is
faster and more precise: first, to ensure we detect packet loss in some extra
corner cases; and second, to avoid growing the RACK reordering window (and
delaying fast recovery) in cases where it seems clear we don't need to.

Neal Cardwell (1):
  tcp: more accurately check DSACKs to grow RACK reordering window

Yuchung Cheng (1):
  tcp: more accurately detect spurious TLP probes

 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c    | 14 ++++++++++++--
 net/ipv4/tcp_recovery.c |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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