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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] tcp: Ensure DCTCP reacts to losses
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From: "Tilmans, Olivier (Nokia - BE/Antwerp)" <olivier.tilmans@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 12:24:02 +0000

> RFC8257 ?3.5 explicitly states that "A DCTCP sender MUST react to
> loss episodes in the same way as conventional TCP".
...
> This patch replace the clamping of alpha by setting ssthresh to
> half of cwnd for both fast retransmissions and RTOs, at most once
> per RTT. Consequently, the dctcp_clamp_alpha_on_loss module parameter
> has been removed.

Applied to 'net' and queued up for -stable, thanks.