On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:10:20PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 11:03:54AM +0200, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:
> >
> > > For UDP yes but does this really make sense for TCP?
> >
> > I don't know :)
> >
> > The flow may end up with SNDBUF worth of skbs on the socket
> > transmit_queue + cwnd worth of skbs on the qdisc queue + full tx ring. In
> > slow
> > start we'll increase cwnd and won't se packet loss until the qdisc is full
> > (which might be at 1000 pkts).
>
> For TCP, the packets stay on the transmit queue until they're acked.
> So all those packets on the qdisc queue (and tx ring) are still charged
> to the socket. The only difference is that right now we're double-
> charging the ones on the qdisc queue..
I see, then I guess this won't be a problem.
Thanks,
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