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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.10 TCP troubles -- suggested patch
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:09:58 -0800
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:54:27 -0800
Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> wrote:

> In some cases at least if the sender does not completely fill cwnd the
> ACKs will  be delayed.  And IIRC under 2.6.10 with TSO enabled, the
> sender does not always  fill cwnd.

At a maximum, "1/tcp_tso_win_divisor" of the cwnd will ever be left
empty.

By default, this is 1/8 of the cwnd.