From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] Customizable TCP backoff patch Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:00:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20060927160044.68ffca2e@freekitty> References: <451AC889.5000407@redhat.com> <20060927.161638.62343616.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: woodard@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mgrondona@llnl.gov, behlendorf1@llnl.gov Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:56012 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031255AbWI0Xl6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:41:58 -0400 To: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20060927.161638.62343616.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:16:38 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Woodard > Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:52:57 -0700 > > > Because these are general utility clusters we run many different > > programs and so trying to fix this problem in the application is not > > possible since there are literally hundreds if not thousands of them. > > Then why add a socket option setting as your patch does? :-) > > I also object to the socket option setting being allowed for > any user because this can have awful effects if allowed by > arbitrary users on arbitrary networks. Setting a cwnd limit would do the same thing.