Re: [PATCH 0/2 net-next] tcp: reducing lost retransmits in recovery

2015-07-08 Thread David Miller
From: Yuchung Cheng ych...@google.com Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 14:11:13 -0700 This patch series reduces lost retransmits in recovery, in particular when dealing with traffic policers. The main problem is that slow start in recovery under policing can cause massive lost and retransmit storms:

[PATCH 0/2 net-next] tcp: reducing lost retransmits in recovery

2015-07-01 Thread Yuchung Cheng
This patch series reduces lost retransmits in recovery, in particular when dealing with traffic policers. The main problem is that slow start in recovery under policing can cause massive lost and retransmit storms: any excess sending rate turns into drops. The solution is to avoid doing slow start