From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: nanditad@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, therbert@google.com,
chavey@google.com, ycheng@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] TCP: increase default initial receive window.
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:14:15 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101217.211415.71128810.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101217195917.33140980@nehalam>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:59:17 -0800
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:20:51 -0800
> Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com> wrote:
>
>> This patch changes the default initial receive window to 10 mss
>> (defined constant). The default window is limited to the maximum
>> of 10*1460 and 2*mss (when mss > 1460).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
>
> This needs way more discussion because it makes Linux non-RFC
> breaking the RFC behavior should require explicit user override.
> I also wonder if the magic value 10 should be a sysctl.
He's changing the default receive window not the transmit
congestion window, so there is nothing RFC about this.
But yes he does have to explain himself why this change is
being made, in exhaustive detail.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-18 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-18 3:20 [PATCH 1/1] TCP: increase default initial receive window Nandita Dukkipati
2010-12-18 3:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-18 5:14 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-12-18 5:13 ` David Miller
2010-12-18 9:08 ` Nandita Dukkipati
2010-12-20 17:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-20 18:26 ` Rick Jones
2010-12-20 18:48 ` David Miller
2010-12-21 0:15 ` [PATCH v2 " Nandita Dukkipati
2010-12-21 0:23 ` Nandita Dukkipati
2010-12-21 5:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-21 5:33 ` David Miller
2010-12-21 18:27 ` [PATCH " John Heffner
2010-12-21 18:49 ` Eric Dumazet
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