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Commit 71b7dec2 authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni Committed by David S. Miller
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mptcp: less aggressive retransmission strategy

The current mptcp re-inject strategy is very aggressive,
we have mptcp-level retransmissions even on single subflow
connection, if the link in-use is lossy.

Let's be a little more conservative: we do retransmit
only if at least a subflow has write and rtx queue empty.

Additionally use the backup subflows only if the active
subflows are stale - no progresses in at least an rtx period
and ignore stale subflows for rtx timeout update

Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/207


Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 33d41c9c
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