From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Christian.Samsel@rwth-aachen.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Resend: [PATCH] TCP Early Retransmit: reduce required dupacks for triggering fast retrans
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090922.134021.82409230.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fab65f44d75b.4ab891f2@rwth-aachen.de>
From: Christian Samsel <Christian.Samsel@rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:59:30 +0000 (GMT)
> This patch implements draft-ietf-tcpm-early-rexmt. The early retransmit
> mechanism allows the transport to reduce the number of duplicate
> acknowledgments required to trigger a fast retransmission in case we
> don't expect enough dupacks, (e.g. because there are not enough
> packets inflight and nothing to send). This allows the transport to use
> fast retransmit to recover packet losses that would otherwise require
> a lengthy retransmission timeout.
>
> See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-early-rexmt-01
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Samsel <christian.samsel@rwth-aachen.de>
What changed from the previous version?
Nothing?
If you're resending just to get our attention, please don't do that.
It only creates confusion and makes it take longer for your patch to
get reviewed and applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-22 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-22 8:59 Resend: [PATCH] TCP Early Retransmit: reduce required dupacks for triggering fast retrans Christian Samsel
2009-09-22 20:40 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-09-22 20:42 ` David Miller
2009-09-23 9:58 ` Ilpo Järvinen
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