Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] tcp: exponential backoff in tcp_send_ack()
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2020-09-30 21:21:52
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2020-09-30 21:21:52
From: Eric Dumazet <redacted> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 05:54:55 -0700
We had outages caused by repeated skb allocation failures in tcp_send_ack() It is time to add exponential backoff to reduce number of attempts. Before doing so, first patch removes icsk_ack.blocked to make room for a new field (icsk_ack.retry)
Series applied, thanks Eric.