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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: hkchu@google.com, hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de, hagen@jauu.net,
	lars.eggert@nokia.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP_USER_TIMEOUT: a new socket option to specify max timeout before a TCP connection is aborted
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:30:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283200212.2405.14.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100830.132502.68138403.davem@davemloft.net>

Le lundi 30 août 2010 à 13:25 -0700, David Miller a écrit :

> I was just saying that it can result in unexpected situations.  The
> user can increase and increase the timeout they use, but to no effect
> because due to backoff the increase isn't adding any more probes at
> all.
> 
> In any event, I've applied your patch, let's see how this goes.



Jerry, could you please send a man update ?

http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/tcp.7.html

(To Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> )

Thanks



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-30 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-28  5:13 [PATCH] TCP_USER_TIMEOUT: a new socket option to specify max timeout before a TCP connection is aborted H.K. Jerry Chu
2010-08-28 23:13 ` David Miller
2010-08-30  0:23   ` Jerry Chu
2010-08-30  4:19     ` David Miller
2010-08-30  6:54       ` Jerry Chu
2010-08-30 20:25         ` David Miller
2010-08-30 20:30           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-08-30 20:47             ` David Miller
2010-08-30 22:41             ` Jerry Chu

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