Re: [PATCH] tcp: Socket option to set congestion window

David Miller
2010-05-26T22:10:05Z

From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 23:27:45 +0200

> As I understand the idea was that the application knows
> what flows belong to a single peer and wants to have
> a single cwnd for all of those. Perhaps there would
> be a way to generalize that to tell it to the kernel.
>
> e.g. have a "peer id" that is known by applications
> and the kernel could manage cwnds shared between connections
> associated with the same peer id?
>
> Just an idea, I admit I haven't thought very deeply
> about this. Feel free to poke holes into it.

Yes, a CWND "domain" that can include multiple sockets is
something that might gain some traction.

The "domain" could just simply be the tuple {process,peer-IP}