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Jon Paul Maloy authored
As cluster sizes grow, so does the amount of identical or overlapping broadcast NACKs generated by the packet receivers. This often leads to 'NACK crunches' resulting in huge numbers of redundant retransmissions of the same packet ranges. In this commit, we introduce rate control of broadcast retransmissions, so that a retransmitted range cannot be retransmitted again until after at least 10 ms. This reduces the frequency of duplicate, redundant retransmissions by an order of magnitude, while having a significant positive impact on overall throughput and scalability. Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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