tcp: RFC6298 supersedes RFC2988bis

Updates some comments to track RFC6298
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

include/net/tcp.h

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ extern void tcp_time_wait(struct sock *sk, int state, int timeo);
 #endif
 #define TCP_RTO_MAX	((unsigned)(120*HZ))
 #define TCP_RTO_MIN	((unsigned)(HZ/5))
-#define TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT ((unsigned)(1*HZ))	/* RFC2988bis initial RTO value	*/
+#define TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT ((unsigned)(1*HZ))	/* RFC6298 2.1 initial RTO value	*/
 #define TCP_TIMEOUT_FALLBACK ((unsigned)(3*HZ))	/* RFC 1122 initial RTO value, now
 						 * used as a fallback RTO for the
 						 * initial data transmission if no

net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c

@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ void inet_csk_reqsk_queue_prune(struct sock *parent,
 
 	/* Normally all the openreqs are young and become mature
 	 * (i.e. converted to established socket) for first timeout.
-	 * If synack was not acknowledged for 3 seconds, it means
+	 * If synack was not acknowledged for 1 second, it means
 	 * one of the following things: synack was lost, ack was lost,
 	 * rtt is high or nobody planned to ack (i.e. synflood).
 	 * When server is a bit loaded, queue is populated with old

net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ static void tcp_init_metrics(struct sock *sk)
 	tcp_set_rto(sk);
 reset:
 	if (tp->srtt == 0) {
-		/* RFC2988bis: We've failed to get a valid RTT sample from
+		/* RFC6298: 5.7 We've failed to get a valid RTT sample from
 		 * 3WHS. This is most likely due to retransmission,
 		 * including spurious one. Reset the RTO back to 3secs
 		 * from the more aggressive 1sec to avoid more spurious
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ static void tcp_init_metrics(struct sock *sk)
 		inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = TCP_TIMEOUT_FALLBACK;
 	}
 	/* Cut cwnd down to 1 per RFC5681 if SYN or SYN-ACK has been
-	 * retransmitted. In light of RFC2988bis' more aggressive 1sec
+	 * retransmitted. In light of RFC6298 more aggressive 1sec
 	 * initRTO, we only reset cwnd when more than 1 SYN/SYN-ACK
 	 * retransmission has occurred.
 	 */