Re: [PATCH] tcp: clarify comment for mdev_us in struct tcp_sock

Fernando Fernandez Mancera <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 8/5/26 3:19 PM, Ziran Zhang wrote:
> The existing comment for mdev_us says "medium deviation", but this
> term is inaccurate. The field stores the "mean deviation" of RTT,
> as originally defined in Van Jacobson's paper "Congestion
> Avoidance and Control", and it is scaled by 4 (<< 2) in the Linux
> implementation.
> 
> Update the comment to reflect the correct terminology and storage
> format.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ziran Zhang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <[email protected]>

Thanks!
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