tcp: fix tcp_cong_avoid_ai() credit accumulation bug with decreases in w
The recent change to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to handle stretch ACKs introduced a bug where snd_cwnd_cnt could accumulate a very large value while w was large, and then if w was reduced snd_cwnd could be incremented by a large delta, leading to a large burst and high packet loss. This was tickled when CUBIC's bictcp_update() sets "ca->cnt = 100 * cwnd". This bug crept in while preparing the upstream version of 814d488c. Testing: This patch has been tested in datacenter netperf transfers and live youtube.com and google.com servers. Fixes: 814d488c ("tcp: fix the timid additive increase on stretch ACKs") Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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