tcp: add tcp_in_slow_start helper

Add a helper to test the slow start condition in various congestion
control modules and other places. This is to prepare a slight improvement
in policy as to exactly when to slow start.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Yuchung Cheng
2015-07-09 13:16:29 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 1007f59dce
commit 071d5080e3
11 changed files with 19 additions and 14 deletions

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@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ void tcp_update_metrics(struct sock *sk)
tcp_metric_set(tm, TCP_METRIC_CWND,
tp->snd_cwnd);
}
} else if (tp->snd_cwnd > tp->snd_ssthresh &&
} else if (!tcp_in_slow_start(tp) &&
icsk->icsk_ca_state == TCP_CA_Open) {
/* Cong. avoidance phase, cwnd is reliable. */
if (!tcp_metric_locked(tm, TCP_METRIC_SSTHRESH))