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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Remove TCPCT
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:35:48 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:23:34 +0100

> TCPCT uses option-number 253, reserved for experimental use and should
> not be used in production environments.
> Further, TCPCT does not fully implement RFC 6013.
> 
> As a nice side-effect, removing TCPCT increases TCP's performance for
> very short flows:
> 
> Doing an apache-benchmark with -c 100 -n 100000, sending HTTP-requests
> for files of 1KB size.
> 
> before this patch:
> 	average (among 7 runs) of 20845.5 Requests/Second
> after:
> 	average (among 7 runs) of 21403.6 Requests/Second
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>

Applied, thanks Christoph.