From 5aa4b32fc86408705337e941ed716880c63d1590 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Petlund Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:45:45 +0000 Subject: net: TCP thin-stream detection Inline function to dynamically detect thin streams based on the number of packets in flight. Used to dynamically trigger thin-stream mechanisms if enabled by ioctl or sysctl. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/tcp.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/net/tcp.h') diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index 75a00c80bdda..0bdc3f640247 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -1386,6 +1386,14 @@ static inline void tcp_highest_sack_combine(struct sock *sk, tcp_sk(sk)->highest_sack = new; } +/* Determines whether this is a thin stream (which may suffer from + * increased latency). Used to trigger latency-reducing mechanisms. + */ +static inline unsigned int tcp_stream_is_thin(struct tcp_sock *tp) +{ + return tp->packets_out < 4 && !tcp_in_initial_slowstart(tp); +} + /* /proc */ enum tcp_seq_states { TCP_SEQ_STATE_LISTENING, -- cgit v1.2.1