Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:36:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: "Henderson, Thomas R" <thomas.r.henderson@boeing.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: [patch] Possible newreno fix, please test Message-ID: <20020808173357.N52867-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <00EBC850E752CC46B8509DAB4D0D2CB910691A@xch-nw-29.nw.nos.boeing.com>
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Henderson, Thomas R wrote: > I'm curious to the motivation behind this patch. What have people > experienced that this patch corrects? > > The first fix appears to disable the artificial window inflation > that occurs during the recovery period-- intended to keep data > flowing in the pipe so ack clocking doesn't break down. > > The second fix should not have much of an impact (difference > of one segment in cwnd when you leave fast recovery)-- but > does have a possible side effect of leaving you with a cwnd > of zero. > > Tom Ruh roh, now I'm confused. From the comment at this url: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c?rev=1.69&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=openbsd&f=h I assumed that you submitted the newreno parts, but I guess that was _not_ the case. Were your fixes more related to SACK/FACK? Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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