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    Revert "dctcp: update cwnd on congestion event" · 343dfaa1
    Florian Westphal authored
    Neal Cardwell says:
     If I am reading the code correctly, then I would have two concerns:
     1) Has that been tested? That seems like an extremely dramatic
        decrease in cwnd. For example, if the cwnd is 80, and there are 40
        ACKs, and half the ACKs are ECE marked, then my back-of-the-envelope
        calculations seem to suggest that after just 11 ACKs the cwnd would be
        down to a minimal value of 2 [..]
     2) That seems to contradict another passage in the draft [..] where it
        sazs:
           Just as specified in [RFC3168], DCTCP does not react to congestion
           indications more than once for every window of data.
    
    Neal is right.  Fortunately we don't have to complicate this by testing
    vs. current rtt estimate, we can just revert the patch.
    
    Normal stack already handles this for us: receiving ACKs with ECE
    set causes a call to tcp_enter_cwr(), from there on the ssthresh gets
    adjusted and prr will take care of cwnd adjustment.
    
    Fixes: 47805667
    
     ("dctcp: update cwnd on congestion event")
    Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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