BBR: Check for app-limited at the beginning of the packet recv / send loop #2328
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This change simplifies the event loop and removes the need to bias the select! to avoid starvation by serializing all the event loop actions and clarifying the start and end of the work loop iteration.
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The new logic matches the app-limited detection algorithm described in the BBR RFC draft, which involves checking for the previous state of the connection before timeout and ack processing.
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The new logic matches the app-limited detection algorithm described in
the BBR RFC draft, which involves checking for the previous state of the
connection before timeout and ack processing.