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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: chris.snook@gmail.com
Cc: hagen@jauu.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi, acme@redhat.com,
	shemminger@vyatta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: make TCP quick ACK behavior modifiable
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:23:30 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100823.152330.184822588.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinb_tjcz=AF1-2i7MK=Bgm7aEtozjb3Ds0swi8q@mail.gmail.com>

From: Chris Snook <chris.snook@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:19:45 -0400

> Just because we've allowed stupid TCP sysctls in the past does not
> mean we should continue to do so now.  We recently made delayed ack a
> per-route tunable, so consistency would suggest we do the same here.
> Per-route tunables are more flexible, and as with the delayed ack
> patch, there are use cases where that granularity gives a clear
> advantage over a sysctl.  For example, you may want to disable quick
> ack on a high-MTU path and enable it on a low-MTU path.
> 
> If you need a hint for how to implement the per-route tunable, look
> for the delayed ack patch from early 2009.

I completely agree with Chris that this should be a per-route rather
than a global sysctl tunable.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-23 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-23 19:00 [PATCH] tcp: make TCP quick ACK behavior modifiable Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-23 19:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-23 19:57   ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-23 20:08   ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-23 21:21     ` David Miller
2010-08-23 21:51       ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-23 22:04         ` Chris Snook
2010-08-23 22:16         ` David Miller
2010-08-23 20:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-08-23 20:49   ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-23 21:10   ` Chris Snook
2010-08-23 22:01     ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-23 22:19       ` Chris Snook
2010-08-23 22:23         ` David Miller [this message]
2010-08-23 22:26           ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-23 23:17           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-23 23:18             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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