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Commit b713d006 authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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mptcp: really share subflow snd_wnd



As per RFC, mptcp subflows use a "shared" snd_wnd: the effective
window is the maximum among the current values received on all
subflows. Without such feature a data transfer using multiple
subflows could block.

Window sharing is currently implemented in the RX side:
__tcp_select_window uses the mptcp-level receive buffer to compute
the announced window.

That is not enough: the TCP stack will stick to the window size
received on the given subflow; we need to propagate the msk window
value on each subflow at xmit time.

Change the packet scheduler to ignore the subflow level window
and use instead the msk level one

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 avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 10b4a11f
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