From: Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, mptcp@lists.linux.dev
Cc: dcaratti@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH mptcp-net] mptcp: clear scheduled subflows on retransmit
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:10:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2faac8b-1c60-4086-8b99-c770c1c31ac6@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30e5325f37026b870cd0d0765d5d47c8a68fced9.1763676964.git.pabeni@redhat.com>
Hi Paolo,
On 20/11/2025 23:16, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> When __mptcp_retrans() kicks-in, it schedules one or more subflow for
> retransmission, but such subflows could be actually left alone if there
> is no more data to retransmit and/or in case of concurrent fallback.
>
> Scheduled subflows could be processed much later in time, i.e. when new
> data will be transmitted, leading to bad subflow selection.
>
> Explicitly clear all scheduled subflows before leaving the retransmission
> function.
Thank you for this fix! It looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
I suggest sending it (alone) tomorrow if there are no objections.
Cheers,
Matt
--
Sponsored by the NGI0 Core fund.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-24 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-20 22:16 [PATCH mptcp-net] mptcp: clear scheduled subflows on retransmit Paolo Abeni
2025-11-20 23:15 ` MPTCP CI
2025-11-21 8:45 ` Paolo Abeni
2025-11-22 12:59 ` Geliang Tang
2025-11-24 8:26 ` Paolo Abeni
2025-11-24 18:10 ` Matthieu Baerts [this message]
2025-11-24 18:24 ` Matthieu Baerts
2025-11-24 18:18 ` Matthieu Baerts
2025-11-24 21:06 ` Paolo Abeni
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