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Merge branch 'FACK-loss-recovery-remove'
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:53:17 +0000 (18:53 +0900)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:53:17 +0000 (18:53 +0900)
commitf31f54db94f086d69fa457f6e0d40783469a7512
treea95677bca04ad68e0c1a60fa343d59d24934e669
parente4ec1384132ead18e972f1180e958aa0b69abd11
parent737ff314563ca27f044f9a3a041e9d42491ef7ce
Merge branch 'FACK-loss-recovery-remove'

Yuchung Cheng says:

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remove FACK loss recovery

This patch set removes the forward-acknowledgment (FACK)
packet-based loss and reordering detection. This simplifies TCP
loss recovery since the SACK scoreboard no longer needs to track
the number of pending packets under highest SACKed sequence. FACK
is subsumed by the time-based RACK loss detection which is more
robust under reordering and second order losses.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>