llc_conn_ac_send_i_as_ack(9)

💅 llc_conn_ac_send_i_as_ack 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

llc_conn_ac_send_i_as_ack — sends an I-format PDU to acknowledge rx PDUs

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int llc_conn_ac_send_i_as_ack (struct sock *sk , struct sk_buff *skb );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sk — current connection structure. That's the connection context, bestie.
• skb — current event. The event that just rolled in.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This action sends an I-format PDU as acknowledge to received PDUs which have not been acknowledged, yet, if there is any. In other words: it's an I-format PDU doing acknowledgement duty for received PDUs that are still waiting on an ack — but only if there are any. By using of this action number of acknowledgements decreases, this technic is called piggy backing. Returns 0 for success, 1 otherwise.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./net/llc/llc_c_ac.c — and the whole squad is: llc_conn_ac_send_ack_if_needed(9), llc_conn_ac_rst_sendack_flag(9), llc_conn_ac_send_i_rsp_f_set_ackpf(9), llc_conn_ac_send_rr_rsp_f_set_ackpf(9), llc_conn_ac_inc_npta_value(9), llc_conn_ac_adjust_npta_by_rr(9), llc_conn_ac_adjust_npta_by_rnr(9), llc_conn_ac_dec_tx_win_size(9), llc_conn_ac_inc_tx_win_size(9), llc_conn_disc(9), llc_conn_reset(9), llc_circular_between(9), llc_process_tmr_ev(9).

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