From: Martin Zielinski <mz@seh.de> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:54:28 +0100 Remember the situation: - Linux wants to transmit data sending a packet with window size e.g. 5840 - The receiver can't use the data (printer paper empty) -> ACK window size 0 - Linux takes a timeout (tp->probes_out is zero after receiving the ACK) ... LOOP - The Timeout between these cycles is doubled by the use of tp->backoff (tp->rto << tp->backoff) until TCP_MAX_RTO is reached. Ok, then just limit tp->backoff in tcp_send_probe0() like this: if (tp->backoff < sysctl_tcp_retry2) tp->backoff++; I think this fixes the bug more elegantly. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
