From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerrit Renker Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Increase the initial congestion window to 10. Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 14:57:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20110205135710.GA4752@gerrit.erg.abdn.ac.uk> References: <20110202.170750.229739784.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dccp@vger.kernel.org, therbert@google.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from dee.erg.abdn.ac.uk ([139.133.204.82]:64816 "EHLO erg.abdn.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751564Ab1BEN53 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2011 08:57:29 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110202.170750.229739784.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: | I've left the DCCP code to keep using RFC3390 logic, if they | wish to adopt this change in their code they can do so by | simply deleting the rfc33390_bytes_to_packets() function and | using TCP_INIT_CWND in their assignment. | | include/net/tcp.h | 12 +++--------- | net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c | 9 +++++++++ Thank you for keeping the compatility, this seems an excellent way forward. The change only affects CCID-2, TCP-like congestion control. This still has some unresolved issues (related to cwnd) in its implementation. Once these have been resolved, we can return to tracking the state of the art in TCP, for the moment your patch works best.