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tcp: add sysctl to allow/disallow TSO during SACK loss recovery
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Authored by rscheff on Thu, May 2, 7:50 PM.
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Summary

In preparation for the planned changes around making it possible
for TSO to remain operational during SACk loss recovery, add
a sysctl to retain the current behavior

'''net.inet.tcp.sack.tso = 0'''

Once the related changes are committed, the plan is to switch this
in main to "1" - and either retain this for the next release branch,
or revert the setting to 0 depending on feedback.

Note: Prior to D43355 and D43470, the SACK loss recovery code in
tcp_output is broken and would transmit excessively when TSO is
active.

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