tcp: extend F-RTO to catch more spurious timeouts
Current F-RTO reverts cwnd reset whenever a never-retransmitted packet was (s)acked. The timeout can be declared spurious because the packets acknoledged with this ACK was transmitted before the timeout, so clearly not all the packets are lost to reset the cwnd. This nice detection does not really depend F-RTO internals. This patch applies the detection universally. On Google servers this change detected 20% more spurious timeouts. Suggested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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