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authorLuca De Cicco <ldecicco@gmail.com>2006-06-11 23:01:39 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-06-17 21:30:34 -0700
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[TCP] Westwood: comment fixes
Cleanup some comments and add more references Signed-off-by: Luca De Cicco <ldecicco@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_westwood.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_westwood.c25
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_westwood.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_westwood.c
index 62a96b71b0dd..12a2cd976e3a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_westwood.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_westwood.c
@@ -1,7 +1,24 @@
/*
- * TCP Westwood+
+ * TCP Westwood+: end-to-end bandwidth estimation for TCP
*
- * Angelo Dell'Aera: TCP Westwood+ support
+ * Angelo Dell'Aera: author of the first version of TCP Westwood+ in Linux 2.4
+ *
+ * Support at http://c3lab.poliba.it/index.php/Westwood
+ * Main references in literature:
+ *
+ * - Mascolo S, Casetti, M. Gerla et al.
+ * "TCP Westwood: bandwidth estimation for TCP" Proc. ACM Mobicom 2001
+ *
+ * - A. Grieco, s. Mascolo
+ * "Performance evaluation of New Reno, Vegas, Westwood+ TCP" ACM Computer
+ * Comm. Review, 2004
+ *
+ * - A. Dell'Aera, L. Grieco, S. Mascolo.
+ * "Linux 2.4 Implementation of Westwood+ TCP with Rate-Halving :
+ * A Performance Evaluation Over the Internet" (ICC 2004), Paris, June 2004
+ *
+ * Westwood+ employs end-to-end bandwidth measurement to set cwnd and
+ * ssthresh after packet loss. The probing phase is as the original Reno.
*/
#include <linux/config.h>
@@ -93,7 +110,7 @@ static void westwood_update_window(struct sock *sk)
struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
s32 delta = tcp_time_stamp - w->rtt_win_sx;
- /* Initialise w->snd_una with the first acked sequence number in order
+ /* Initialize w->snd_una with the first acked sequence number in order
* to fix mismatch between tp->snd_una and w->snd_una for the first
* bandwidth sample
*/
@@ -191,7 +208,7 @@ static void tcp_westwood_event(struct sock *sk, enum tcp_ca_event event)
{
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
-
+
switch(event) {
case CA_EVENT_FAST_ACK:
westwood_fast_bw(sk);