Re: [PATCH] always set westwood rtt (trivial)

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Re: [PATCH] always set westwood rtt (trivial)

To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [PATCH] always set westwood rtt (trivial)
From:	"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:04:49 -0800
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:17:26 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It is faster just to update the rtt even if we never use it.

We save a dirty cache line in the tcp_opt structure when westwood
is off.

Does it really matter?  Who knows... I'm so ambivalent about this that
I'm just not going to apply the patch for now. :-)

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