From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Fink Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP: remove initial_ssthresh from Cubic Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:03:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20070614000341.b9151782.billfink@mindspring.com> References: <20070613102718.61d67a36@localhost> <20070613.112652.112623832.davem@davemloft.net> <20070613113149.5cd1b11e@localhost> <20070613.114621.85409138.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, sangtae.ha@gmail.com, rhee@eos.ncsu.edu, rhee@ncsu.edu, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from elasmtp-galgo.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.61]:47752 "EHLO elasmtp-galgo.atl.sa.earthlink.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751039AbXFNEED (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:04:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070613.114621.85409138.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, David Miller wrote: > From: Stephen Hemminger > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:31:49 -0700 > > > Maybe it is time to remove BIC? > > I don't see any compelling reason, the same could be said > of the other experimental protocols we include in the tree. I agree bic should be kept. As I pointed out, if someone did want to set the bic/cubic initial_ssthresh to 100 globally, my tests showed bic's performance during the initial slow start phase was far superior to cubic's. I don't know if this is a bug or a feature with cubic. -Bill