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Yuchung Cheng authored
If the retransmission in CA_Loss is lost again, we should not continue to slow start or raise cwnd in congestion avoidance mode. Instead we should enter fast recovery and use PRR to reduce cwnd, following the principle in RFC5681: "... or the loss of a retransmission, should be taken as two indications of congestion and, therefore, cwnd (and ssthresh) MUST be lowered twice in this case." This is especially important to reduce loss when the CA_Loss state was caused by a traffic policer dropping the entire inflight. The CA_Loss state has a problem where a loss of L packets causes the sender to send a burst of L packets. So a policer that's dropping most packets in a given RTT can cause a huge retransmit storm. By contrast, PRR includes logic to bound the number of outbound packets that result from a given ACK. So switching to CA_Recovery on lost retransmits in CA_Loss avoids this retransmit storm problem when in CA_Loss. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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