Does TCP still send new packet after packet loss is detected

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Let's say TCP already detected packet loss and re-transmitted packet, does it continue to send new packet before the acks of re-transmitted packet arrives.

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Jason Zhou On

I found the answer, if retransmission is triggered, tcp will enter congestion control mode, the congestion window will be reset to 1 MSS, so it can continue to send at most 1 MSS size of data without ack.