From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] 2.6.2 SCTP updates Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:41:45 -0800 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040209124145.48de8d55.davem@redhat.com> References: <20040206194518.56787717.davem@redhat.com> <4027EECA.9000705@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sri@us.ibm.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Nivedita Singhvi In-Reply-To: <4027EECA.9000705@us.ibm.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:34:18 -0800 Nivedita Singhvi wrote: > Sorry to pitch in on this so late - and I'm not suggesting > this was not the right thing to do here, but I feel that > having the per-protocol globals (as we do for TCP) is a > good thing, as then you don't affect all (raw, udp..) > traffic on the system just because someone is tuning > for SCTP, etc. I understand. But there was no known reason to tweak things for SCTP. If one wanted to adjust things system wide there was no way for it to apply to SCTP too. Also, the TCP controls are not as they would seem. They don't directly effect things like the sysctl*{rmem,wmem} stuff does, rather it influences the dynamic socket buffer sizing which TCP does.