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Commit 22119240 authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller
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[TCP] cubic: scaling error



Doug Leith observed a discrepancy between the version of CUBIC described
in the papers and the version in 2.6.18. A math error related to scaling
causes Cubic to grow too slowly.

Patch is from "Sangtae Ha" <sha2@ncsu.edu>. I validated that
it does fix the problems.

See the following to show behavior over 500ms 100 Mbit link.

Sender (2.6.19-rc3) ---  Bridge (2.6.18-rt7) ------- Receiver (2.6.19-rc3)
                    1G      [netem]           100M

	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/tcp/2.6.19-rc3/cubic-orig.png
	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/tcp/2.6.19-rc3/cubic-fix.png

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 291b58d6
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