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tcp: fix tcp_rcv_rtt_update() use of an unscaled RTT sample
authorNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:59:20 +0000 (07:59 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 11 May 2012 12:14:21 +0000 (13:14 +0100)
commit65355aea86b2a70cbc7cbe14466702bc5a4e2217
tree7a3eb50518007c1fd47525e90157248d5288c88f
parent8a0885b2113dfe7d1fb4f981a3d3c712ad90619c
tcp: fix tcp_rcv_rtt_update() use of an unscaled RTT sample

[ Upstream commit 18a223e0b9ec8979320ba364b47c9772391d6d05 ]

Fix a code path in tcp_rcv_rtt_update() that was comparing scaled and
unscaled RTT samples.

The intent in the code was to only use the 'm' measurement if it was a
new minimum.  However, since 'm' had not yet been shifted left 3 bits
but 'new_sample' had, this comparison would nearly always succeed,
leading us to erroneously set our receive-side RTT estimate to the 'm'
sample when that sample could be nearly 8x too high to use.

The overall effect is to often cause the receive-side RTT estimate to
be significantly too large (up to 40% too large for brief periods in
my tests).

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c