From: Neal Cardwell <ncardw...@google.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 21:57:27 -0400
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:42 PM Lawrence Brakmo <bra...@fb.com> wrote:
>>
>> Note that without this fix the 99% latencies when doing 10KB RPCs
>> in a congested network using DCTCP are 40ms vs. 190us with the patch.
>> Also note that these 40ms high tail latencies started after commit
>> 3759824da87b30ce7a35b4873b62b0ba38905ef5 in Jul 2015,
>> which triggered the bugs/features we are fixing/adding. I agree it is a
>> debatable whether it is a bug fix or a feature improvement and I am
>> fine either way.
>
> Good point. The fact that this greatly mitigates a regression in DCTCP
> performance resulting from 3759824da87b30ce7a35b4873b62b0ba38905ef5
> ("tcp: PRR uses CRB mode by default and SS mode conditionally") IMHO
> seems to be a good argument for putting this patch ("tcp: ack
> immediately when a cwr packet arrives") in the "net" branch and stable
> releases.
Thus, applied to 'net' and queued up for -stable.
