From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet 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 Message-ID: <1283200212.2405.14.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <20100829.211954.232753860.davem@davemloft.net> <20100830.132502.68138403.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: hkchu@google.com, hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de, hagen@jauu.net, lars.eggert@nokia.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:50203 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754939Ab0H3Uad (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:30:33 -0400 Received: by wyb35 with SMTP id 35so7023462wyb.19 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:30:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100830.132502.68138403.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le lundi 30 ao=C3=BBt 2010 =C3=A0 13:25 -0700, David Miller a =C3=A9cri= t : > 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. >=20 > 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 ) Thanks