tcp: always ACK immediately on hole repairs
RFC 5681 sec 4.2: To provide feedback to senders recovering from losses, the receiver SHOULD send an immediate ACK when it receives a data segment that fills in all or part of a gap in the sequence space. When a gap is partially filled, __tcp_ack_snd_check already checks the out-of-order queue and correctly send an immediate ACK. However when a gap is fully filled, the previous implementation only resets pingpong mode which does not guarantee an immediate ACK because the quick ACK counter may be zero. This patch addresses this issue by marking the one-time immediate ACK flag instead. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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