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While playing with eBPF i tried tcpstates and noticed very low time for TCP state transition SYN_RECV -> ESTABLISHED

My numbers from tests:

SYN_RECV -> ESTABLISHED 0.015  
SYN_RECV -> ESTABLISHED 0.017  
SYN_RECV -> ESTABLISHED 0.051

From handshake diagram it looks like that transition time from SYN_RECV to ESTABLISHED should be near RTT between hosts?

TCP Fast Open turned off on host.
OS: Ubuntu 18.10 (GNU/Linux 4.18.0-21-generic x86_64)

Is it bug or i'm wrong?

UPDATED:
tcpdump -tttttv

 00:00:00.000000 IP (tos 0x28, ttl 49, id 280, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
    dst_host > src_host: Flags [S], cksum 0x46ae (correct), seq 4063608731, win 29200, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 332512899 ecr 0,nop,wscale 6], length 0
 00:00:00.000071 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 60)
    src_host > dst_host: Flags [S.], cksum 0x84c2 (incorrect -> 0x3c01), seq 1516815880, ack 4063608732, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 2341429130 ecr 332512899,nop,wscale 7], length 0
 00:00:00.079183 IP (tos 0x28, ttl 49, id 281, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 52)
    dst_host > src_host: Flags [.], cksum 0xda11 (correct), ack 1, win 457, options [nop,nop,TS val 332512918 ecr 2341429130], length 0
 00:00:00.093311 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 60333, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 93)
    src_host > dst_host: Flags [P.], cksum 0x84e3 (incorrect -> 0xb341), seq 1:42, ack 1, win 227, options [nop,nop,TS val 2341429223 ecr 332512918], length 41
such low numbers are between syn_recv and syn+ack send, but between syn_recv and established it should be 00:00:00.079183

ping between hosts in this tcpdump is around 83ms

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  • It should take at least 2*RTT, as the peer has to both receive the SYN-ACK and ACK it. – user207421 Jun 06 '19 at 05:44
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    @user207421 Why 2*RTT? [**Round Trip** Time](https://blog.packet-foo.com/2014/07/determining-tcp-initial-round-trip-time/) includes acknowledgement. It is near RTT. – z0lupka Jun 06 '19 at 09:24

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