From 1f3279ae0c13cd742731726b0ed195d5f09b14e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:58:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tcp: avoid retransmits of TCP packets hanging in host queues In commit 0e280af026a5 ("tcp: introduce TCPSpuriousRtxHostQueues SNMP counter") we added a logic to detect when a packet was retransmitted while the prior clone was still in a qdisc or driver queue. We are now confident we can do better, and catch the problem before we fragment a TSO packet before retransmit, or in TLP path. This patch fully exploits the logic by simply canceling the spurious retransmit. Original packet is in a queue and will eventually leave the host. This helps to avoid network collapses when some events make the RTO estimations very wrong, particularly when dealing with huge number of sockets with synchronized blast. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed