Re: [PATCH] TCP congestion module: add TCP-LP supporting for 2.6.16.14

["David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 11:29:15 +0000

> Hi!
> 
> > TCP Low Priority is a distributed algorithm whose goal 
> > is to utilize only
> > the excess network bandwidth as compared to the ``fair 
> > share`` of
> > bandwidth as targeted by TCP. Available from:
> >   http://www.ece.rice.edu/~akuzma/Doc/akuzma/TCP-LP.pdf
> 
> Nice... I'd like to use something like this on my (overloaded)
> GPRS/EDGE link.
> 
> Unfortunately, patch does not include documentation update AFAICS. How
> do I use it? net-nice -n 19 rsync would be nice, but I guess that
> would be quite complex...?

You could select it as the default congestion control algorithm
in your kernel config, but that's probably not what you want.

Or, just include it, and select it with the TCP_CONGESTION socket
option when you want it.  Sorry, this does require app modifications.