tcp: remove cwnd moderation after recovery
For non-SACK connections, cwnd is lowered to inflight plus 3 packets when the recovery ends. This is an optional feature in the NewReno RFC 2582 to reduce the potential burst when cwnd is "re-opened" after recovery and inflight is low. This feature is questionably effective because of PRR: when the recovery ends (i.e., snd_una == high_seq) NewReno holds the CA_Recovery state for another round trip to prevent false fast retransmits. But if the inflight is low, PRR will overwrite the moderated cwnd in tcp_cwnd_reduction() later regardlessly. So if a receiver responds bogus ACKs (i.e., acking future data) to speed up transfer after recovery, it can only induce a burst up to a window worth of data packets by acking up to SND.NXT. A restart from (short) idle or receiving streched ACKs can both cause such bursts as well. On the other hand, if the recovery ends because the sender detects the losses were spurious (e.g., reordering). This feature unconditionally lowers a reverted cwnd even though nothing was lost. By principle loss recovery module should not update cwnd. Further pacing is much more effective to reduce burst. Hence this patch removes the cwnd moderation feature. v2 changes: revised commit message on bogus ACKs and burst, and missing signature Signed-off-by: Matt Mathis <mattmathis@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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