From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Fix tcp_mark_head_lost() with packets == 0 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:44:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100319.224457.179950657.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1268828189-22182-1-git-send-email-lennart.schulte@nets.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi, hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de To: lennart.schulte@nets.rwth-aachen.de Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:42156 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751349Ab0CTFof (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:44:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1268828189-22182-1-git-send-email-lennart.schulte@nets.rwth-aachen.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Lennart Schulte Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:16:29 +0100 > A packet is marked as lost in case packets == 0, although nothing should be done. > This results in a too early retransmitted packet during recovery in some cases. > This small patch fixes this issue by returning immediately. > > Signed-off-by: Lennart Schulte > Signed-off-by: Arnd Hannemann Applied, thanks.