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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: sangtae.ha@gmail.com, baruch@ev-en.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] tcp: remove experimental variants from default list
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:23:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070213122314.6968f116@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070213.120640.18311028.davem@davemloft.net>

My somewhat biased capsule summary is:

Algorithms:

Reno: Linux never really implemented pure Reno anyway, see
	http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/research/iwtcp/papers/linuxtcp.pdf
   This makes anybody doing pure ns2 based comparisons suspect.
   The problem is Reno rolls off

HSTCP: too aggressive and can be unfair
BIC: not fair to Reno
CUBIC: good fairness but depends on additional traffic to converge faster
HTCP: good fairness but high variation
Vegas: reduces loss but sensitive to delay variation and back channel
Westwood: reduces loss but slow growth on high BDP

Not evaluated enough: Hydra, VENO

The biggest issue with CUBIC (and before that BIC) has been 
bugs with a long mean-time-to-discovery (but MTTR has been fast). 
The others don't seem to get as much attention, perhaps
we should turn a different congestion control algorithm as default
on each -mm release to get people to actually look at the others.

There are some newer congestion control algorithms coming:
TCP Illinois, a newer version of Westwood, TCP-Fusion, Exp-TCP
and maybe Adaptive RENO. Stay tuned.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-13 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-12 16:03 [patch 0/3] TCP trivial patches Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-12 16:03 ` [patch 1/3] tcp: cleanup of htcp Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-12 21:14   ` David Miller
2007-02-12 21:28     ` [patch 1/3] tcp: cleanup of htcp (resend) Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-12 21:34       ` David Miller
2007-02-12 16:03 ` [patch 2/3] tcp: use read mostly for CUBIC parameters Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-12 21:15   ` David Miller
2007-02-12 16:03 ` [patch 3/3] tcp: remove experimental variants from default list Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-12 19:11   ` Baruch Even
2007-02-12 20:13     ` Ian McDonald
2007-02-12 20:26       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-12 20:34         ` David Miller
2007-02-12 20:32       ` David Miller
2007-02-12 20:37         ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-12 20:47           ` David Miller
2007-02-12 21:05         ` Ian McDonald
2007-02-12 20:20     ` David Miller
2007-02-12 22:12       ` Baruch Even
2007-02-12 22:53         ` David Miller
2007-02-13  9:56           ` Baruch Even
2007-02-13 16:49             ` SANGTAE HA
2007-02-13 17:42               ` Baruch Even
2007-02-13 19:54                 ` John Heffner
2007-02-13 20:06               ` David Miller
2007-02-13 20:23                 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-02-13 17:41             ` Injong Rhee
2007-02-13 18:23               ` Baruch Even
2007-02-13 19:56             ` David Miller
2007-02-13 20:06               ` Baruch Even

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