Credit here goes to Gerrit Renker, that provided the initial implementation for
this new codebase.
I modified it just to try to make it closer to the existing API, renaming some
functions, add namespacing and fix one bug where the tfrc_rx_hist_alloc was not
freeing the allocated ring entries on the error path.
Original changeset comment from Gerrit:
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This provides a new, self-contained and generic RX history service for TFRC
based protocols.
Details:
* new data structure, initialisation and cleanup routines;
* allocation of dccp_rx_hist entries local to packet_history.c,
as a service exported by the dccp_tfrc_lib module.
* interface to automatically track highest-received seqno;
* receiver-based RTT estimation (needed for instance by RFC 3448, 6.3.1);
* a generic function to test for `data packets' as per RFC 4340, sec. 7.7.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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