Merge branch 'oprofile/urgent' into oprofile/core

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/oprofile/common.c

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index eaa9582779d0..3e4b33e36602 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -475,8 +475,22 @@ extern unsigned int tcp_current_mss(struct sock *sk);
 /* Bound MSS / TSO packet size with the half of the window */
 static inline int tcp_bound_to_half_wnd(struct tcp_sock *tp, int pktsize)
 {
-	if (tp->max_window && pktsize > (tp->max_window >> 1))
-		return max(tp->max_window >> 1, 68U - tp->tcp_header_len);
+	int cutoff;
+
+	/* When peer uses tiny windows, there is no use in packetizing
+	 * to sub-MSS pieces for the sake of SWS or making sure there
+	 * are enough packets in the pipe for fast recovery.
+	 *
+	 * On the other hand, for extremely large MSS devices, handling
+	 * smaller than MSS windows in this way does make sense.
+	 */
+	if (tp->max_window >= 512)
+		cutoff = (tp->max_window >> 1);
+	else
+		cutoff = tp->max_window;
+
+	if (cutoff && pktsize > cutoff)
+		return max_t(int, cutoff, 68U - tp->tcp_header_len);
 	else
 		return pktsize;
 }