On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Yuchung Cheng [off-list ref] wrote:

This a prepartion patch that refactors the code to enter recovery
into a new function tcp_enter_recovery(). It's needed to implement
the delayed fast retransmit in ER.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <redacted>
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ChangeLog in v2:
 Fix sysctl_tcp_early_retrans default to 2
 Re-arrange the patch parts so they are individually compilable and functional.

 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |   61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>

BTW, I think this is a nice clean-up, independent of early retransmit.

neal