From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: set congestion default through Kconfig Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:28:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20060919102853.7db3cac1@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060918214104.3824a2e2@localhost.localdomain> <200609191203.51045.ak@suse.de> <20060919123534.GC7000@c3po.0xdef.net> <20060919.091037.110907025.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hagen@jauu.net, ak@suse.de, bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:5059 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030370AbWISR3j (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:29:39 -0400 To: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20060919.091037.110907025.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:10:37 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer > Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:35:35 +0200 > > > BTW: BIC is sometimes to aggressive in comparison to standard tcp > > behaviour (e.g. in short RTT environments) - this is an known > > issue. Why not cubic as the default one? > > We may change over to CUBIC as the default in 2.6.19, I wanted > CUBIC to sit around in the tree for a while in case some major > issues came up first. I was going to do this for 2.6.19 as well, but wanted more discussion and also do it as a separate step from the config changes. -- Stephen Hemminger