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[5/7] tcp_cubic: enable high resolution ack time if needed

Message ID 20110314175439.657008198@vyatta.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

stephen hemminger March 14, 2011, 5:52 p.m. UTC 
This is a refined version of an earlier patch by Lucas Nussbaum.
Cubic needs RTT values in milliseconds. If HZ < 1000 then
the values will be too coarse.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Reported-by: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas.nussbaum@loria.fr>



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Patch

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c	2011-03-14 08:22:42.486690594 -0700
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c	2011-03-14 08:27:24.435852847 -0700
@@ -459,6 +459,10 @@  static int __init cubictcp_register(void
 	/* divide by bic_scale and by constant Srtt (100ms) */
 	do_div(cube_factor, bic_scale * 10);
 
+	/* hystart needs ms clock resolution */
+	if (hystart && HZ < 1000)
+		cubictcp.flags |= TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP;
+
 	return tcp_register_congestion_control(&cubictcp);
 }