Re: How does SACK or FACK determine the time to start fast retransmition?

From
Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date
2012-06-21 05:59:09
Also in
lkml
Reply to
LovelyLich, 2012-06-20
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 22:31 +0800, LovelyLich wrote:
HI all,
    When tcp uses reno as its congestion control algothim, it uses
tp->sacked_out as dup-ack. When the third dup-ack(under default
condition) comes, tcp will initiate its fast retransmition.
    But how about sack ?
Some tcp experts out there only catch tcp related stuff if Subject
includes TCP.

You might resend your mail on netdev (not sure lkml will really help)
with following subject :

[RFC] tcp: How does SACK or FACK determine the time to start fast
retransmission?

To get more traction.
Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 4 authors, last reply 2012-06-21
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread / next series-diff position
kprevious message in thread / previous series-diff position
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help