[quicwg/base-drafts] SetLossDetectionTime negative timeout (#2052)

Lars Eggert <notifications@github.com> Mon, 26 November 2018 10:15 UTC

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Subject: [quicwg/base-drafts] SetLossDetectionTime negative timeout (#2052)
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In `OnPacketSent()`, `time_of_last_sent_retransmittable_packet` is set to `now`, and then `SetLossDetectionTimer()` is called.

In `SetLossDetectionTimer()`, the early RTX timer is computed as `timeout = loss_time - time_of_last_sent_retransmittable_packet`, and `loss_time` can be smaller than `now`, which causes `timeout` to go negative.


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