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tcp: inherit listener congestion control for passive cnx
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:02:41 +0000 (01:02 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:55:26 +0000 (16:55 -0500)
commit8d934f4b480c7939e0ecb82ffde0a3690bf8626c
treea0231b1aa1c44252c79c9cb769bd0695e021f1b6
parentfb12a37999e9d3d19911d34be4943cc3f716d9cd
tcp: inherit listener congestion control for passive cnx

Rick Jones reported that TCP_CONGESTION sockopt performed on a listener
was ignored for its children sockets : right after accept() the
congestion control for new socket is the system default one.

This seems an oversight of the initial design (quoted from Stephen)

Based on prior investigation and patch from Rick.

Reported-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
CC: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Tested-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c