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Commit d0b53f40 authored by Marcelo Ricardo Leitner's avatar Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Committed by David S. Miller
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sctp: update order of adjustments of partial_bytes_acked and cwnd



RFC4960 Errata 3.12 says RFC4960 is unclear about the order of
adjustments applied to partial_bytes_acked and cwnd in the congestion
avoidance phase, and that the actual order should be:
partial_bytes_acked is reset to (partial_bytes_acked - cwnd). Next, cwnd
is increased by MTU.

We were first increasing cwnd, and then subtracting the new value pba,
which leads to a different result as pba is smaller than what it should
and could cause cwnd to not grow as much.

See-also: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-rfc4960-errata-01#section-3.12
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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