From bec41a11dd3dc8c54f766b4f494140ca92ba7c10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuchung Cheng Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:11:39 -0800 Subject: tcp: remove early retransmit This patch removes the support of RFC5827 early retransmit (i.e., fast recovery on small inflight with <3 dupacks) because it is subsumed by the new RACK loss detection. More specifically when RACK receives DUPACKs, it'll arm a reordering timer to start fast recovery after a quarter of (min)RTT, hence it covers the early retransmit except RACK does not limit itself to specific inflight or dupack numbers. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c index ba8f02d0f283..b9ed0d50aead 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c @@ -522,7 +522,6 @@ void tcp_init_metrics(struct sock *sk) val = tcp_metric_get(tm, TCP_METRIC_REORDERING); if (val && tp->reordering != val) { tcp_disable_fack(tp); - tcp_disable_early_retrans(tp); tp->reordering = val; } -- cgit