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Yuchung Cheng ac229dca7e tcp: remove RFC4653 NCR
This patch removes the (partial) implementation of the aggressive
limited transmit in RFC4653 TCP Non-Congestion Robustness (NCR).

NCR is a mitigation to the problem created by the dynamic
DUPACK threshold.  With the current adaptive DUPACK threshold
(tp->reordering) could cause timeouts by preventing fast recovery.
For example, if the last packet of a cwnd burst was reordered, the
threshold will be set to the size of cwnd. But if next application
burst is smaller than threshold and has drops instead of reorderings,
the sender would not trigger fast recovery but instead resorts to a
timeout recovery.

NCR mitigates this issue by checking the number of DUPACKs against
the current flight size additionally. The techniqueue is similar to
the early retransmit RFC.

With RACK loss detection, this mitigation is not needed, because RACK
does not use DUPACK threshold to detect losses. RACK arms a reordering
timer to fire at most a quarter RTT later to start fast recovery.

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>
2017-01-13 22:37:16 -05:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-11 14:43:39 -05:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-01-04 09:03:37 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
Documentation tcp: remove early retransmit 2017-01-13 22:37:16 -05:00
drivers liquidio: use fallback for selecting txq 2017-01-13 20:17:35 -05:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-11 14:43:39 -05:00
include tcp: remove early retransmit 2017-01-13 22:37:16 -05:00
init cgroup: move CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA to init/Kconfig 2017-01-11 09:47:10 -05:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel bpf: allow b/h/w/dw access for bpf's cb in ctx 2017-01-12 10:00:31 -05:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-11 14:43:39 -05:00
mm mm/hugetlb.c: fix reservation race when freeing surplus pages 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
net tcp: remove RFC4653 NCR 2017-01-13 22:37:16 -05:00
samples vfio-mdev: fix some error codes in the sample code 2017-01-04 08:32:23 -07:00
scripts gcc-plugins: update gcc-common.h for gcc-7 2017-01-03 12:08:59 -08:00
security Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sound Revert "ALSA: firewire-lib: change structure member with proper type" 2017-01-05 08:39:47 +01:00
tools tools: psock_lib: harden socket filter used by psock tests 2017-01-12 10:23:26 -05:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-25 14:30:04 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap mailmap: add codeaurora.org names for nameless email commits 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS CREDITS: Remove outdated address information 2016-12-21 15:21:29 -08:00
Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-11 14:43:39 -05:00
Makefile Linux 4.10-rc3 2017-01-08 14:18:17 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.