From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr.com>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>,
shemminger@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] document initcwnd
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:33:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100505193307.42382590@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE21D64.4040600@athenacr.com>
On Wed, 05 May 2010 21:37:40 -0400
Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Wed, 05 May 2010 16:56:34 -0400
> > Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> dormando wrote:
> >>>> This sounds like TCP slow start.
> >>>>
> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-start
> >>>>
> >>>> As far as tunables you might want to play with the initcwnd route
> >>>> flag (see "ip route help")
> >>> Ah, yes, initcwnd was it. I'm well aware of TCP Congestion control / slow
> >>> start / etc. However I couldn't find the damn tunable for it :)
> >> Documenting the flag in ip(8) might increase its visibility
> >> a little. I don't see it documented in the iproute2 git head,
> >> though it shows up on http://linux.die.net/man/8/ip somehow.
> >>
> >> Stephen, do you know why that is?
> >
> > No one sent me an official patch to change it?
>
> Mention initcwnd in ip(8). Text taken from doc/ip-cref.tex.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr.com>
Ok, I will add it with an explicit caution about not doing this on public
networks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-06 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-05 9:10 3 packet TCP window limit? dormando
2010-05-05 13:26 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-05-05 20:01 ` dormando
2010-05-05 20:23 ` Rick Jones
2010-05-05 21:31 ` dormando
2010-05-06 6:15 ` Lars Eggert
2010-05-06 8:51 ` dormando
[not found] ` <p2h349f35ee1005061513x1db24de0ld98a40256c481ac2@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <q2ud1c2719f1005061613yf90cd7c6r46ee23cc49858e74@mail.gmail.com>
2010-05-06 23:15 ` Jerry Chu
2010-05-05 20:56 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-05-05 22:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-06 1:37 ` [PATCH iproute2] document initcwnd Brian Bloniarz
2010-05-06 2:33 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-05-19 15:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
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