Re: [PATCH] Too aggressive cwnd backoff

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:18:09 +0100
Baruch Even <baruch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This change seems to be specific to us (Hamilton), I didn't find it as 
> far back as 2.4.12 [1], it wasn't in any 2.6.x kernel and not even in 
> web100 version alpha 2.3.2 which corresponds to kernel 2.4.23.
> 
> It does appear in the original patches that Doug Leith sent, so the only 
> explanation left is that it's something he did in his tree originally. 
> And for some reason I believed it was reverting an old change in the 
> Linux kernel.

That makes sense.

And as John Heffner has pointed out, this change is correct and is
part of rate-halving.