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Commit da34ac76 authored by Yuchung Cheng's avatar Yuchung Cheng Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: only undo on partial ACKs in CA_Loss



Undo based on TCP timestamps should only happen on ACKs that advance
SND_UNA, according to the Eifel algorithm in RFC 3522:

Section 3.2:

  (4) If the value of the Timestamp Echo Reply field of the
      acceptable ACK's Timestamps option is smaller than the
      value of RetransmitTS, then proceed to step (5),

Section Terminology:
   We use the term 'acceptable ACK' as defined in [RFC793].  That is an
   ACK that acknowledges previously unacknowledged data.

This is because upon receiving an out-of-order packet, the receiver
returns the last timestamp that advances RCV_NXT, not the current
timestamp of the packet in the DUPACK. Without checking the flag,
the DUPACK will cause tcp_packet_delayed() to return true and
tcp_try_undo_loss() will revert cwnd reduction.

Note that we check the condition in CA_Recovery already by only
calling tcp_try_undo_partial() if FLAG_SND_UNA_ADVANCED is set or
tcp_try_undo_recovery() if snd_una crosses high_seq.

Signed-off-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 33b4b015
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