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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: noboru.obata.ar@hitachi.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable (take 2)
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:27:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46969CA9.8030406@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070712141203.7350429a@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net>

> One question is why the RTO gets so large that it limits failover?
> 
> If Linux TCP is working correctly,  RTO should be srtt + 2*rttvar
> 
> So either there is a huge srtt or variance, or something is going
> wrong with RTT estimation.  Given some reasonable maximums of
> Srtt = 500ms and rttvar = 250ms, that would cause RTO to be 1second.

I suspect that what is happening here is that a link goes down in a 
trunk somewhere for some number of seconds, resulting in a given TCP 
segment being retransmitted several times, with the doubling of the RTO 
each time.

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-12 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-12  7:15 [PATCH 2.6.22] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable (take 2) OBATA Noboru
2007-07-12  9:37 ` David Miller
2007-07-12 13:59   ` OBATA Noboru
2007-07-12 20:24     ` David Miller
2007-07-12 21:12       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-12 21:27         ` Rick Jones [this message]
2007-07-12 22:02           ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-12 22:27             ` Rick Jones
2007-07-24 13:30               ` OBATA Noboru
2007-07-13  4:29           ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-07-13 16:55             ` Rick Jones
2007-07-14  6:19               ` David Miller
2007-07-23 18:40                 ` Rick Jones
     [not found]       ` <20070828.220447.01366772.noboru.obata.ar@hitachi.com>
     [not found]         ` <20070828.133057.107937654.davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-29 12:26           ` OBATA Noboru
2007-08-29 16:16             ` Rick Jones
2007-08-30 12:24               ` OBATA Noboru
2007-08-29 18:15             ` David Miller
2007-07-12 20:51   ` Rick Jones
2007-07-24 13:35     ` OBATA Noboru

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