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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"zimmermann@nets.rwth-aachen.de" <zimmermann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>,
	"pavel@ucw.cz" <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	"apetlund@simula.no" <apetlund@simula.no>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>,
	"eric.dumazet@gmail.com" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	"Arnd.Hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de" 
	<Arnd.Hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"shemminger@vyatta.com" <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	"william.allen.simpson@gmail.com"
	<william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>,
	"damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de" <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de>,
	"ebiederm@xmission.com" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v4 1/3] net: TCP thin-stream detection
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:17:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4u5mh9u.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FB5F656F-091A-4FB5-9586-15C6CB263D05@nokia.com> (Lars Eggert's message of "Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:41:32 +0200")

Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> writes:

> If it's off by default there is no issue.

Still a sufficient large number of people might turn it on
and then the network would melt.

IMHO TCP changes with badly understood congestion behaviour
should not be merged until the necessary analysis/simulation etc.
is done.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-22 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-16 14:40 [net-next PATCH v4 1/3] net: TCP thin-stream detection Andreas Petlund
2010-02-18  0:32 ` David Miller
2010-02-21 10:21 ` Pavel Machek
2010-02-21 11:23   ` Alexander Zimmermann
2010-02-21 20:04     ` Lars Eggert
2010-02-21 23:03       ` David Miller
2010-02-22  6:41         ` Lars Eggert
2010-02-22 15:17           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-02-22 15:35             ` Alexander Zimmermann
2010-02-22 15:40             ` Andreas Petlund
2010-02-22 15:51             ` Andreas Petlund
2010-02-22 16:06             ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-02-22 22:13             ` David Miller
2010-02-21 22:36     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-02-21 22:18   ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-02-21 22:31   ` Ilpo Järvinen

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