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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,v2] tcp: Set pingpong threshold via sysctl
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:15:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231010191542.3688fe24@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PH7PR21MB3116FC142CAECCD5D981C530CACDA@PH7PR21MB3116.namprd21.prod.outlook.com>

On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:59:49 +0000
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> wrote:

> > > If this an application specific optimization, it should be in a socket option
> > > rather than system wide via sysctl.  
> > Initially I had a similar comment but later decided a sysctl could
> > still be useful if
> > 1) the entire host (e.g. virtual machine) is dedicated to that application
> > 2) that application is difficult to change  
> 
> Yes, the customer actually wants a global setting. But as suggested by Neal,
> I changed it to be per-namespace to match other TCP tunables.

Like congestion control choice, it could be both a sysctl and a socket option.
The reason is that delayed ack is already controlled by socket options.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-11  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-10 19:23 [PATCH net-next,v2] tcp: Set pingpong threshold via sysctl Haiyang Zhang
2023-10-10 20:06 ` Neal Cardwell
2023-10-10 21:05   ` Haiyang Zhang
2023-10-10 20:11 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2023-10-10 21:09   ` Haiyang Zhang
2023-10-10 22:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-10 22:27   ` Yuchung Cheng
2023-10-10 22:59     ` Haiyang Zhang
2023-10-11  2:15       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-10-11 18:49         ` Haiyang Zhang
2023-10-11 18:57           ` Eric Dumazet

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