On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
>
> Per listen(fd, backlog) rules, there is really no point accepting a SYN,
> sending a SYNACK, and dropping the following ACK packet if accept queue
> is full, because application is not draining accept queue fast enough.
>
> This behavior is fooling TCP clients that believe they established a
> flow, while there is nothing at server side. They might then send about
> 10 MSS (if using IW10) that will be dropped anyway while server is under
> stress.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardw...@google.com>

Great. Thanks, Eric!

neal

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