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    aoe: improve network congestion handling · 3a0c40d2
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    The aoe driver already had some congestion handling, but it was limited in
    its ability to cope with the kind of congestion that can arise on more
    complex networks such as those involving paths through multiple ethernet
    switches.
    
    Some of the lessons from TCP's history of development can be applied to
    improving the congestion control and avoidance on AoE storage networks.
    These changes use familar concepts from Van Jacobson's "Congestion
    Avoidance and Control" paper from '88, without adding significant
    overhead.
    
    This patch depends on an upcoming patch that covers the failover case when
    AoE commands being retransmitted are transferred from one retransmit queue
    to another.  Another upcoming patch increases the timing accuracy.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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