From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, rhee@ncsu.edu
Subject: Re: [RFC] TCP burst control
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:04:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040706160447.3c2efffa.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040706155858.11b368e6@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:58:58 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
> When using advanced congestion control it is possible for TCP to decide that
> it has a large window to fill with data right away. The problem is that if TCP
> creates long bursts, it becomes unfriendly to other flows and is more likely
> to overrun intermediate queues.
>
> This patch limits the amount of data in flight. It came from BICTCP 1.1 but it
> has been generalized to all TCP congestion algorithms. It has had some testing,
> but needs to be more widely tested.
Both the New Reno and Westwood+ algorithms implement rate-halving to
solve this problem.
Why can't BICTCP use that instead of this special burst control hack?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-06 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-06 22:58 [RFC] TCP burst control Stephen Hemminger
2004-07-06 23:04 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-07-07 0:09 ` Injong Rhee
2004-07-07 0:29 ` David S. Miller
2004-07-07 5:46 ` Injong Rhee
2004-07-07 5:49 ` Injong Rhee
2004-07-07 15:31 ` Matt Mathis
2004-07-09 15:36 ` Injong Rhee
2004-07-15 0:11 ` Weiguang Shi
2004-07-07 2:20 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-07-28 9:48 ` Xiaoliang (David) Wei
2004-07-28 13:45 ` Lisong Xu
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