From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] TCP: increase default initial receive window. Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:59:17 -0800 Message-ID: <20101217195917.33140980@nehalam> References: <1292642451-892-1-git-send-email-nanditad@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tom Herbert , Laurent Chavey , Yuchung Cheng To: Nandita Dukkipati Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:54899 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755708Ab0LRD7U (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:59:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1292642451-892-1-git-send-email-nanditad@google.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:20:51 -0800 Nandita Dukkipati 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 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.