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Commit 9949afa4 authored by Neal Cardwell's avatar Neal Cardwell Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: fix tcp_cong_avoid_ai() credit accumulation bug with decreases in w

The recent change to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to handle stretch ACKs
introduced a bug where snd_cwnd_cnt could accumulate a very large
value while w was large, and then if w was reduced snd_cwnd could be
incremented by a large delta, leading to a large burst and high packet
loss. This was tickled when CUBIC's bictcp_update() sets "ca->cnt =
100 * cwnd".

This bug crept in while preparing the upstream version of
814d488c.

Testing: This patch has been tested in datacenter netperf transfers
and live youtube.com and google.com servers.

Fixes: 814d488c

 ("tcp: fix the timid additive increase on stretch ACKs")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 366c1bd1
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