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From: Mika Liljeberg <Mika.Liljeberg@welho.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: TCP acking too fast
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:49:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC97BC5.9F341ACE@welho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BC94F3A.7F842182@welho.com> <20011014.020326.18308527.davem@redhat.com> <k2zo6uiney.fsf@zero.aec.at> <20011014.023948.95894368.davem@redhat.com> <20011014133004.34133@colin.muc.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:
> The only special case for PSH in RX left I can is in rcv_mss estimation,
> where is assumes that a packet with PSH set is not full sized.

A packet without PSH should be full size. Assuming the sender implemets
SWS avoidance correctly, this should be a safe enough assumption.

> On further
> look the 2.4 tcp_measure_rcv_mss will never update rcv_mss for packets
> which do have PSH set and in this case cause random ack behaviour depending
> on the initial rcv_mss guess.
> Not very nice; definitely violates the "be conservative what you accept"
> rule. I'm not sure how to fix it, adding a fallback to every-two-packet-add
> would pollute the fast path a bit.

You're right. As far as I can see, it's not necessary to set the
TCP_ACK_PUSHED flag at all (except maybe for SYN-ACK). I'm just writing
a patch to clean this up.

> -Andi

Regards,

	MikaL

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-14 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-14  0:23 TCP acking too fast Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14  6:40 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-14  7:05   ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14  7:47     ` David S. Miller
2001-10-14  7:51       ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14  8:12         ` David S. Miller
2001-10-14  8:39           ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14  9:03             ` David S. Miller
2001-10-14  9:15               ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14  9:16                 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-14  9:25               ` Andi Kleen
2001-10-14  9:39                 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-14 11:30                   ` Andi Kleen
2001-10-14 11:49                     ` Mika Liljeberg [this message]
2001-10-14 14:05                       ` Andi Kleen
2001-10-14 14:26                         ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14 16:12                           ` Andi Kleen
2001-10-14 16:55                             ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14 17:07                               ` kuznet
2001-10-14 17:26                                 ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14 17:35                                   ` kuznet
2001-10-14 17:56                                     ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14 18:20                                       ` kuznet
2001-10-14 18:48                                         ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14 19:12                                           ` kuznet
2001-10-14 19:32                                             ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14 19:40                                               ` kuznet
2001-10-14 20:06                                                 ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-15 18:40                                                   ` kuznet
2001-10-15 19:15                                                     ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-15 19:38                                                       ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14 13:14                     ` [PATCH] " Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-14 16:36                     ` kuznet
2001-10-14  7:50     ` David S. Miller
2001-10-14  7:53       ` Mika Liljeberg
2001-10-15 20:59 ` Bill Davidsen

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