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Commit 9ad084d6 authored by Yuchung Cheng's avatar Yuchung Cheng Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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tcp: improve PRR loss recovery



This patch improves TCP PRR loss recovery behavior for a corner
case. Previously during PRR conservation-bound mode, it strictly
sends the amount equals to the amount newly acked or s/acked.

The patch changes s.t. PRR may send additional amount that was banked
previously (e.g. application-limited) in the conservation-bound
mode, similar to the slow-start mode. This unifies and simplifies the
algorithm further and may improve the recovery latency. This change
still follow the general packet conservation design principle and
always keep inflight/cwnd below the slow start threshold set
by the congestion control module.

PRR is described in RFC 6937. We'll include this change in the
latest revision rfc6937-bis as well.

Reported-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220519003410.2531936-1-ycheng@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 7ebe52f5
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