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Commit b5ccd073 authored by Sangtae Ha's avatar Sangtae Ha Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp_cubic: fix low utilization of CUBIC with HyStart



HyStart sets the initial exit point of slow start.
Suppose that HyStart exits at 0.5BDP in a BDP network and no history exists.
If the BDP of a network is large, CUBIC's initial cwnd growth may be
too conservative to utilize the link.
CUBIC increases the cwnd 20% per RTT in this case.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSangtae Ha <sangtae.ha@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 2b4636a5
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