From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Too aggressive cwnd backoff Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:37:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20050407133754.32d343b2.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20050407164146.GA6479@ev-en.org> <20050407113351.17f8c094.davem@davemloft.net> <42558771.1050605@ev-en.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Baruch Even In-Reply-To: <42558771.1050605@ev-en.org> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:18:09 +0100 Baruch Even wrote: > This change seems to be specific to us (Hamilton), I didn't find it as > far back as 2.4.12 [1], it wasn't in any 2.6.x kernel and not even in > web100 version alpha 2.3.2 which corresponds to kernel 2.4.23. > > It does appear in the original patches that Doug Leith sent, so the only > explanation left is that it's something he did in his tree originally. > And for some reason I believed it was reverting an old change in the > Linux kernel. That makes sense. And as John Heffner has pointed out, this change is correct and is part of rate-halving.