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    tcp: undo initial congestion window on false SYN timeout · 7c1f0815
    Yuchung Cheng authored
    Linux implements RFC6298 and use an initial congestion window of 1
    upon establishing the connection if the SYN packet is retransmitted 2
    or more times. In cellular networks SYN timeouts are often spurious
    if the wireless radio was dormant or idle. Also some network path
    is longer than the default SYN timeout. Having a minimal cwnd on
    both cases are detrimental to TCP startup performance.
    
    This patch extends TCP undo feature (RFC3522 aka TCP Eifel) to detect
    spurious SYN timeout via TCP timestamps. Since tp->retrans_stamp
    records the initial SYN timestamp instead of first retransmission, we
    have to implement a different undo code additionally. The detection
    also must happen before tcp_ack() as retrans_stamp is reset when
    SYN is acknowledged.
    
    Note this patch covers both active regular and fast open.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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