From: Satoru SATOH <satoru.satoh@gmail.com>
To: Ryousei Takano <ryousei@gmail.com>
Cc: Ivan Novick <novickivan@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 200 millisecond timeouts in TCP
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 00:02:02 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100604150202.GA8268@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilsYS8P2VqATmasXjjdhjPMMZznIHBByXc1i8cU@mail.gmail.com>
It's possible to tune the RTO min value (rto_min) per route since
2.6.23+. (see also the manual of iproute2, ip(8) )
- satoru
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:58:57PM +0900, Ryousei Takano wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Ivan Novick <novickivan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Using tcpdump and systemtap I am seeing that sometimes retransmission
> > of data is sent after waiting 200 milliseconds. However sometimes
> > retransmissions happen quicker.
> >
> > Is there a specifc event that causes these 200 milisec delays to kick
> > in? Are those events identifiable in netstat -s output?
> >
> > Also do you know if the timeout numbers for TCP are configurable parameters?
> >
> The minimum RTO value is fixed to 200 ms. It is useful to make the min/max
> RTO values tunable. For example, reducing the minimum RTO value is effective
> for TCP incast problem [1]. Of course, it may occur spurious retransmissions.
>
> [1] Vijay Vasudevan, et al, Safe and Effective Fine-grained TCP Retransmissions
> for Datacenter Communication, SIGCOMM2009
>
> In Solaris, there are two tunable parameters: tcp_rexmit_interval_min/max.
>
> Do you have plan to introduce sysctl parameters like these to the Linux.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryousei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-04 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-03 22:37 200 millisecond timeouts in TCP Ivan Novick
2010-06-03 22:51 ` Mitchell Erblich
2010-06-03 23:10 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-06-04 0:05 ` Ivan Novick
2010-06-04 0:11 ` Ivan Novick
2010-06-04 0:45 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-06-04 1:13 ` Mitchell Erblich
2010-06-04 6:58 ` Ryousei Takano
2010-06-04 15:02 ` Satoru SATOH [this message]
2010-06-04 22:55 ` Ryousei Takano
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