From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:18:45 +0300 (EEST)

> Actually, the ratehalving seems to work too well, as cwnd is
> reduced on every second ACK even though the packets in flight
> remains unchanged. Recoveries in a bidirectional flows suffer
> quite badly because of this, both NewReno and SACK are affected.
> 
> After this patch, rate halving is performed for ACK only if
> packets in flight was supposedly changed too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This fix looks great, and I see no potential problems with
Reno after doing a bit of auditing.

Applied and I'll push to -stable too.
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