linux-stable/include
Yuchung Cheng 9f9843a751 tcp: properly handle stretch acks in slow start
Slow start now increases cwnd by 1 if an ACK acknowledges some packets,
regardless the number of packets. Consequently slow start performance
is highly dependent on the degree of the stretch ACKs caused by
receiver or network ACK compression mechanisms (e.g., delayed-ACK,
GRO, etc).  But slow start algorithm is to send twice the amount of
packets of packets left so it should process a stretch ACK of degree
N as if N ACKs of degree 1, then exits when cwnd exceeds ssthresh. A
follow up patch will use the remainder of the N (if greater than 1)
to adjust cwnd in the congestion avoidance phase.

In addition this patch retires the experimental limited slow start
(LSS) feature. LSS has multiple drawbacks but questionable benefit. The
fractional cwnd increase in LSS requires a loop in slow start even
though it's rarely used. Configuring such an increase step via a global
sysctl on different BDPS seems hard. Finally and most importantly the
slow start overshoot concern is now better covered by the Hybrid slow
start (hystart) enabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-04 19:57:59 -05:00
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acpi ACPI / PM: Drop two functions that are not used any more 2013-10-17 15:44:48 +02:00
asm-generic mm: Fix generic hugetlb pte check return type. 2013-10-02 20:02:35 -04:00
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drm Revert "drm: mark context support as a legacy subsystem" 2013-09-20 08:32:59 +10:00
dt-bindings ARM: dts: Fix pinctrl mask for omap3 2013-10-08 10:37:29 -07:00
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linux Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next 2013-11-04 19:46:58 -05:00
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net tcp: properly handle stretch acks in slow start 2013-11-04 19:57:59 -05:00
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scsi Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2013-09-12 16:11:45 -07:00
sound ASoC: rcar: fixup generation checker 2013-10-11 19:52:32 +01:00
target target/iscsi: Bump versions to v4.1.0 2013-09-10 20:23:37 -07:00
trace target: Fix assignment of LUN in tracepoints 2013-10-09 01:54:44 -07:00
uapi Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next 2013-11-04 19:46:58 -05:00
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xen xen-netback: enable IPv6 TCP GSO to the guest 2013-10-17 15:35:17 -04:00
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