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authorJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>2010-10-16 00:03:09 +0400
committerJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>2010-10-16 00:03:09 +0400
commitfc3718918f13ad72827d62d36ea0f5fb55090644 (patch)
tree4f9551256e02d08be37bab137f3d94182a67504c /include/net/tcp.h
parent7bdb0d18bfd381cc5491eb95973ec5604b356c7e (diff)
parentd4396eafe402b710a8535137b3bf2abe6c059a15 (diff)
downloadlinux-fc3718918f13ad72827d62d36ea0f5fb55090644.tar.xz
Merge branch 'globalheartbeat-2' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/smushran/linux-2.6 into ocfs2-merge-window
Conflicts: fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/tcp.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/tcp.h18
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index eaa9582779d0..3e4b33e36602 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -475,8 +475,22 @@ extern unsigned int tcp_current_mss(struct sock *sk);
/* Bound MSS / TSO packet size with the half of the window */
static inline int tcp_bound_to_half_wnd(struct tcp_sock *tp, int pktsize)
{
- if (tp->max_window && pktsize > (tp->max_window >> 1))
- return max(tp->max_window >> 1, 68U - tp->tcp_header_len);
+ int cutoff;
+
+ /* When peer uses tiny windows, there is no use in packetizing
+ * to sub-MSS pieces for the sake of SWS or making sure there
+ * are enough packets in the pipe for fast recovery.
+ *
+ * On the other hand, for extremely large MSS devices, handling
+ * smaller than MSS windows in this way does make sense.
+ */
+ if (tp->max_window >= 512)
+ cutoff = (tp->max_window >> 1);
+ else
+ cutoff = tp->max_window;
+
+ if (cutoff && pktsize > cutoff)
+ return max_t(int, cutoff, 68U - tp->tcp_header_len);
else
return pktsize;
}