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authorDaniele Lacamera <root@danielinux.net>2008-10-07 15:58:17 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-10-07 15:58:17 -0700
commit9d2c27e17b7574023b5adb5c6a50d7aaeb915543 (patch)
tree2161f26ce73fe9e38d74691e941a299cdd532df4 /net/ipv4/tcp_hybla.c
parent58ec3b4db9eb5a28e3aec5f407a54e28f7039c19 (diff)
downloadlinux-9d2c27e17b7574023b5adb5c6a50d7aaeb915543.tar.gz
tcp: Fix tcp_hybla zero congestion window growth with small rho and large cwnd.
Because of rounding, in certain conditions, i.e. when in congestion
avoidance state rho is smaller than 1/128 of the current cwnd, TCP
Hybla congestion control starves and the cwnd is kept constant
forever.

This patch forces an increment by one segment after #send_cwnd calls
without increments(newreno behavior).

Signed-off-by: Daniele Lacamera <root@danielinux.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_hybla.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_hybla.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_hybla.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_hybla.c
index bfcbd148a89d..c209e054a634 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_hybla.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_hybla.c
@@ -150,7 +150,11 @@ static void hybla_cong_avoid(struct sock *sk, u32 ack, u32 in_flight)
 		ca->snd_cwnd_cents -= 128;
 		tp->snd_cwnd_cnt = 0;
 	}
-
+	/* check when cwnd has not been incremented for a while */
+	if (increment == 0 && odd == 0 && tp->snd_cwnd_cnt >= tp->snd_cwnd) {
+		tp->snd_cwnd++;
+		tp->snd_cwnd_cnt = 0;
+	}
 	/* clamp down slowstart cwnd to ssthresh value. */
 	if (is_slowstart)
 		tp->snd_cwnd = min(tp->snd_cwnd, tp->snd_ssthresh);