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From: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@cloudflare.com,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] tcp: note that tcp_rmem[1] has a limited range
Date: Mon,  3 Jan 2022 16:37:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220104003722.73982-1-ivan@cloudflare.com> (raw)

The value of rcv_ssthresh is limited to tcp_rwin, which is limited
to 64k at the handshake time, since window scaling is not allowed there.

Let's add a note to the docs that increasing tcp_rmem[1] does not have
any effect on raising the initial value of rcv_ssthresh past 64k.

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/12/22/652
Signed-off-by: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index 2572eecc3e86..16528bc92e65 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -683,7 +683,8 @@ tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
 	default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
 	This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
 	Default: 131072 bytes.
-	This value results in initial window of 65535.
+	This value results in initial window of 65535. Increasing this value
+	won't raise the initial advertised window above 65535.
 
 	max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
 	selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-01-04  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-04  0:37 Ivan Babrou [this message]
2022-01-04  0:44 ` [PATCH net] tcp: note that tcp_rmem[1] has a limited range Stephen Hemminger
2022-01-04  8:33   ` Eric Dumazet
2022-01-06  4:20     ` Ivan Babrou
2022-01-06  8:25       ` Eric Dumazet
2022-01-06 22:40         ` Ivan Babrou

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