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authorDavid Howells <[email protected]>2016-09-21 23:29:31 +0000
committerDavid Howells <[email protected]>2016-09-22 07:49:20 +0000
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parentrxrpc: Obtain RTT data by requesting ACKs on DATA packets (diff)
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rxrpc: Reduce the number of ACK-Requests sent
Reduce the number of ACK-Requests we set on DATA packets that we're sending to reduce network traffic. We set the flag on odd-numbered DATA packets to start off the RTT cache until we have at least three entries in it and then probe once per second thereafter to keep it topped up. This could be made tunable in future. Note that from this point, the RXRPC_REQUEST_ACK flag is set on DATA packets as we transmit them and not stored statically in the sk_buff. Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
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