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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] always set westwood rtt (trivial)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:04:49 -0800
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:17:26 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> It is faster just to update the rtt even if we never use it.

We save a dirty cache line in the tcp_opt structure when westwood
is off.

Does it really matter?  Who knows... I'm so ambivalent about this that
I'm just not going to apply the patch for now. :-)