On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 5:42 AM, Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 09/23/2018 12:49 PM, Yafang Shao wrote: >> With sk_state, we can know whether this connection is in SYN_SENT state >> or ESTBLISHED state. >> The reason to distinguish between these two scenario is that the >> retransmission in ESTABLISHED state always mean network congestion while >> in SYN_SENT state it always mean server issue, i.e. the syn packet is >> dropped due to syn backlog queue full. > > You mean, a packet drop on the remote peer ? >
Yes, I mean drop on the remote peer. > It could also be a packet drop in the network. > Yes of course. > Your patch is good, but changelog is quite misleading. Will modify the changelog. Thanks Yafang
