Re: [PATCH] sctp: Reducing rwnd by sizeof(struct sk_buff) for each CHUNK is too aggressive

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:21:11AM -0400, Vladislav Yasevich wrote:
> First, let me state that I mis-understood what the patch is attempting to do.
> Looking again, I understand this a little better, but still have reservations.

This explains a lot :)

> If we treat the window as strictly available data, then we may end up sending a lot more traffic
> then the window can take thus causing us to enter 0 window probe and potential retransmission
> issues that will trigger congestion control.  
> We'd like to avoid that so we put some overhead into our computations.  It may not be ideal
> since we do this on a per-chunk basis.  It could probably be done on per-packet basis instead.
> This way, we'll essentially over-estimate but under-subscribe our current view of the peers
> window.  So in one shot, we are not going to over-fill it and will get an updated view next
> time the SACK arrives.

I will update my patch to include a per packet overhead and also fix the retransmission
rwnd reopening to do the same.