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tcp: enable RACK loss detection to trigger recovery
authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 06:11:36 +0000 (22:11 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 14 Jan 2017 03:37:16 +0000 (22:37 -0500)
commita0370b3f3f2cfb8b424b04c0545414abaa53f5ee
tree3b5e28b49001af777d99edfa784d9c8f1256616c
parent98e36d449cc681f1bb2ce2230243f7f977a7da1b
tcp: enable RACK loss detection to trigger recovery

This patch changes two things:

1. Start fast recovery with RACK in addition to other heuristics
   (e.g., DUPACK threshold, FACK). Prior to this change RACK
   is enabled to detect losses only after the recovery has
   started by other algorithms.

2. Disable TCP early retransmit. RACK subsumes the early retransmit
   with the new reordering timer feature. A latter patch in this
   series removes the early retransmit code.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/net/tcp.h
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
net/ipv4/tcp_recovery.c