From: "Siim Põder" <siim@p6drad-teel.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc5] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:45:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <467FD4FF.2000104@p6drad-teel.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467FBFE2.7050605@trash.net>
Yo!
Patrick McHardy wrote:
> OBATA Noboru wrote:
>> Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable, and allow a user to change it via a
>> new sysctl entry /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rto_max. A user can
>> then guarantee TCP retransmission to be more controllable, say,
>> at least once per 10 seconds, by setting it to 10. This is
>> quite helpful on failover-capable network devices, such as an
>> active-backup bonding device. On such devices, it is desirable
>> that TCP retransmits a packet shortly after the failover, which
>> is what I would like to do with this patch. Please see
>> Background and Problem below for rationale in detail.
>
> Would it make sense to do this per route?
To only do it per route would reduce it's usefulness with dynamic
routing as routing daemons would probably have trouble supporting it.
Siim Põder
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-26 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-25 13:09 [PATCH 2.6.22-rc5] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable OBATA Noboru
2007-06-25 13:15 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-25 14:45 ` Siim Põder [this message]
2007-06-25 16:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-27 21:57 ` [MaybeSpam] " noboru.obata.ar
2007-06-25 16:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-12 6:45 ` OBATA Noboru
2007-06-25 22:18 ` Ian McDonald
2007-06-25 22:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-25 22:29 ` Rick Jones
2007-07-12 6:53 ` OBATA Noboru
2007-07-12 9:54 ` Ian McDonald
2007-07-12 6:56 ` OBATA Noboru
2007-06-28 1:00 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
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