tcp_cubic: refine Hystart delay threshold

In commit 2b4636a5f8ca ("tcp_cubic: make the delay threshold of HyStart
less sensitive"), HYSTART_DELAY_MIN was changed to 4 ms.

The remaining problem is that using delay_min + (delay_min/16) as the
threshold is too sensitive.

6.25 % of variation is too small for rtt above 60 ms, which are not
uncommon.

Lets use 12.5 % instead (delay_min + (delay_min/8))

Tested:
 80 ms RTT between peers, FQ/pacing packet scheduler on sender.
 10 bulk transfers of 10 seconds :

nstat >/dev/null
for i in `seq 1 10`
 do
   netperf -H remote -- -k THROUGHPUT | grep THROUGHPUT
 done
nstat | grep Hystart

With the 6.25 % threshold :

THROUGHPUT=20.66
THROUGHPUT=249.38
THROUGHPUT=254.10
THROUGHPUT=14.94
THROUGHPUT=251.92
THROUGHPUT=237.73
THROUGHPUT=19.18
THROUGHPUT=252.89
THROUGHPUT=21.32
THROUGHPUT=15.58
TcpExtTCPHystartTrainDetect     2                  0.0
TcpExtTCPHystartTrainCwnd       4756               0.0
TcpExtTCPHystartDelayDetect     5                  0.0
TcpExtTCPHystartDelayCwnd       180                0.0

With the 12.5 % threshold
THROUGHPUT=251.09
THROUGHPUT=247.46
THROUGHPUT=250.92
THROUGHPUT=248.91
THROUGHPUT=250.88
THROUGHPUT=249.84
THROUGHPUT=250.51
THROUGHPUT=254.15
THROUGHPUT=250.62
THROUGHPUT=250.89
TcpExtTCPHystartTrainDetect     1                  0.0
TcpExtTCPHystartTrainCwnd       3175               0.0

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Tested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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