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Subject: Re: tcp wifi upload performance and lots of ACKs
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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:51:20 -0700

> This may not work well when the sender has a congestion window growth
> heuristic different from what the ACK avoidance heuristic assumes.  If
> I recall correctly, the heuristic in HP-UX assumes the sender grows
> cwnd by the number of bytes/segments ACKnowledged.

Linux violates this assumption.