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tcp: update the outdated ref draft-ietf-tcpm-rack

As RACK-TLP was published as a standards-track RFC8985,
so the outdated ref draft-ietf-tcpm-rack need to be updated.

Signed-off-by: Xin Guo <guoxin0309@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250705163647.301231-1-guoxin0309@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

authored by

Xin Guo and committed by
Jakub Kicinski
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Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
··· 431 431 432 432 tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER 433 433 Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail 434 - losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that 434 + losses into fast recovery (RFC8985). Note that 435 435 TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below) 436 436 437 437 Possible values:
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net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
··· 3714 3714 } 3715 3715 3716 3716 /* This routine deals with acks during a TLP episode and ends an episode by 3717 - * resetting tlp_high_seq. Ref: TLP algorithm in draft-ietf-tcpm-rack 3717 + * resetting tlp_high_seq. Ref: TLP algorithm in RFC8985 3718 3718 */ 3719 3719 static void tcp_process_tlp_ack(struct sock *sk, u32 ack, int flag) 3720 3720 {
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net/ipv4/tcp_recovery.c
··· 35 35 tcp_stamp_us_delta(tp->tcp_mstamp, tcp_skb_timestamp_us(skb)); 36 36 } 37 37 38 - /* RACK loss detection (IETF draft draft-ietf-tcpm-rack-01): 38 + /* RACK loss detection (IETF RFC8985): 39 39 * 40 40 * Marks a packet lost, if some packet sent later has been (s)acked. 41 41 * The underlying idea is similar to the traditional dupthresh and FACK