System and method for adjusting transport layer processing during flow control and suspension states

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having a program code stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform a plurality of operations comprising:

• receiving a packet at a network transport layer of a client device;
• calculating a flow hash value for the packet, the flow hash value associating the packet with a particular network flow, the flow hash value usable to track the packet and other packets associated with the particular network flow;
• receiving feedback for the flow from a layer below the network transport layer of the client device, the flow being identified using the flow hash value, the feedback indicating queuing conditions associated with the flow;
• and
• adjusting built in backoff mechanisms normally provided by the network transport layer based on the current queuing conditions;
• wherein the current queuing conditions include an indication as to whether a socket associated with the flow is flow controlled as the result of a number of packets accumulating in a transmit queue reaching a specified threshold and wherein the built in backoff mechanisms provided by the transport layer are responsively disabled.