From 539d243fdd7900fa5a544c7c154dc3ddf627e840 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Ilpo=20J=C3=A4rvinen?= Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 02:03:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [TCP]: Access to highest_sack obsoletes forward_cnt_hint MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In addition, added a reference about the purpose of the loop. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/tcp.h | 1 - net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 23 +++++++++-------------- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h index c072f88afb..d64734389f 100644 --- a/include/linux/tcp.h +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h @@ -346,7 +346,6 @@ struct tcp_sock { int fastpath_cnt_hint; int lost_cnt_hint; int retransmit_cnt_hint; - int forward_cnt_hint; u16 advmss; /* Advertised MSS */ u16 prior_ssthresh; /* ssthresh saved at recovery start */ diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 666d8a58d1..b11025e8a4 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) -- 2.39.5