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-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_input.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 4b27739031fb..904289d2b6bb 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -1467,8 +1467,9 @@ tcp_sacktag_write_queue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *ack_skb, u32 prior_snd_
return flag;
}
-/* F-RTO can only be used if TCP has never retransmitted anything other than
- * head (SACK enhanced variant from Appendix B of RFC4138 is more robust here)
+/* If we receive more dupacks than we expected counting segments
+ * in assumption of absent reordering, interpret this as reordering.
+ * The only another reason could be bug in receiver TCP.
*/
static void tcp_check_reno_reordering(struct sock *sk, const int addend)
{
@@ -1516,6 +1517,9 @@ static inline void tcp_reset_reno_sack(struct tcp_sock *tp)
tp->sacked_out = 0;
}
+/* F-RTO can only be used if TCP has never retransmitted anything other than
+ * head (SACK enhanced variant from Appendix B of RFC4138 is more robust here)
+ */
int tcp_use_frto(struct sock *sk)
{
const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);