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| author | Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> | 2007-05-27 02:03:20 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:47:53 -0700 |
| commit | 539d243fdd7900fa5a544c7c154dc3ddf627e840 (patch) | |
| tree | 68972054f318d614692bdfe76d6d920ae2698a21 /net | |
| parent | 9bff40fda015c4d0b57b444626cdcbf66066dbe7 (diff) | |
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[TCP]: Access to highest_sack obsoletes forward_cnt_hint
In addition, added a reference about the purpose of the loop.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 666d8a58d14a..b11025e8a49e 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -1945,33 +1945,28 @@ void tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue(struct sock *sk) * and retransmission... Both ways have their merits... * * For now we do not retransmit anything, while we have some new - * segments to send. + * segments to send. In the other cases, follow rule 3 for + * NextSeg() specified in RFC3517. */ if (tcp_may_send_now(sk)) return; - if (tp->forward_skb_hint) { + /* If nothing is SACKed, highest_sack in the loop won't be valid */ + if (!tp->sacked_out) + return; + + if (tp->forward_skb_hint) skb = tp->forward_skb_hint; - packet_cnt = tp->forward_cnt_hint; - } else{ + else skb = tcp_write_queue_head(sk); - packet_cnt = 0; - } tcp_for_write_queue_from(skb, sk) { if (skb == tcp_send_head(sk)) break; - tp->forward_cnt_hint = packet_cnt; tp->forward_skb_hint = skb; - /* Similar to the retransmit loop above we - * can pretend that the retransmitted SKB - * we send out here will be composed of one - * real MSS sized packet because tcp_retransmit_skb() - * will fragment it if necessary. - */ - if (++packet_cnt > tp->fackets_out) + if (after(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, tp->highest_sack)) break; if (tcp_packets_in_flight(tp) >= tp->snd_cwnd) |