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Authored by rscheff on Apr 25 2021, 11:03 AM.
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Summary

As stale data from a prior SACK loss recovery episode persists,
a subsequent reordering event may trigger a spurious rescue
retransmission, which in turn misbehaves due to other stale
data.

To prevent sending an erraneous rescue retransmission, clear
the sackhint.delivered_data value, once finished with a SACK
loss recovery.

Furthermore, initialize snd_fack to th_ack on a partial ack,
to pull it forward from whereever the last proper SACK may
have been.

Test Plan

Perform long-duration testing with a low background of packet
reordering and very few losses (or sufficient reordering for
dupthresh to be exceeded).

Reported by: pho@
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: NetApp, Inc.

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