Forgot the patch.. Angelo P. Castellani ha scritto: > From: Angelo P. Castellani > > RFC3742: limited slow start > > See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3742.txt > > Signed-off-by: Angelo P. Castellani > --- > > To allow code reutilization I've added the limited slow start > procedure as an exported symbol of linux tcp congestion control. > > On large BDP networks canonical slow start should be avoided because > it requires large packet losses to converge, whereas at lower BDPs > slow start and limited slow start are identical. Large BDP is defined > through the max_ssthresh variable. > > I think limited slow start could safely replace the canonical slow > start procedure in Linux. > > Regards, > Angelo P. Castellani > > p.s.: in the attached patch is added an exported function currently > used only by YeAH TCP > > include/net/tcp.h | 1 + > net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+) > >