Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission

2018-08-31 Thread David Miller
From: Yuchung Cheng Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:53:56 -0700 > Currently a Linux IPv6 TCP sender will change the flow label upon > timeouts to potentially steer away from a data path that has gone > bad. However this does not help if the problem is on the ACK path > and the data path is healthy. In

[PATCH net-next] tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission

2018-08-29 Thread Yuchung Cheng
Currently a Linux IPv6 TCP sender will change the flow label upon timeouts to potentially steer away from a data path that has gone bad. However this does not help if the problem is on the ACK path and the data path is healthy. In this case the receiver is likely to receive repeated spurious retran