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      Merge branch 'tcp-implement-SACK-compression' · 2c47a65b
      David S. Miller authored
      
      
      Eric Dumazet says:
      
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      tcp: implement SACK compression
      
      When TCP receives an out-of-order packet, it immediately sends
      a SACK packet, generating network load but also forcing the
      receiver to send 1-MSS pathological packets, increasing its
      RTX queue length/depth, and thus processing time.
      
      Wifi networks suffer from this aggressive behavior, but generally
      speaking, all these SACK packets add fuel to the fire when networks
      are under congestion.
      
      This patch series adds SACK compression, but the infrastructure
      could be leveraged to also compress ACK in the future.
      
      v2: Addressed Neal feedback.
          Added two sysctls to allow fine tuning, or even disabling the feature.
      
      v3: take rtt = min(srtt, rcv_rtt) as Yuchung suggested, because rcv_rtt
          can be over estimated for RPC (or sender limited)
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      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      2c47a65b