Re: [PATCH] tcp_cubic: limit delayed_ack ratio to prevent divideerror

From: David Miller
Date: Sun May 08 2011 - 18:52:55 EST


From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 13:04:56 -0700

> TCP Cubic keeps a metric that estimates the amount of delayed
> acknowledgements to use in adjusting the window. If an abnormally
> large number of packets are acknowledged at once, then the update
> could wrap and reach zero. This kind of ACK could only
> happen when there was a large window and huge number of
> ACK's were lost.
>
> This patch limits the value of delayed ack ratio. The choice of 32
> is just a conservative value since normally it should be range of
> 1 to 4 packets.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks Stephen.
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