From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH] make _minimum_ TCP retransmission timeout configurable Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:32:38 -0700 Message-ID: <46D5F406.3040307@hp.com> References: <200708292052.NAA21975@tardy.cup.hp.com> <5640c7e00708291432q6acde704od52247647a6b453@mail.gmail.com> <20070829.144656.104048365.davem@davemloft.net> <20070829151301.495f3d6e@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from palrel13.hp.com ([156.153.255.238]:59044 "EHLO palrel13.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751881AbXH2WdV (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:33:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070829151301.495f3d6e@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From what I've seen thusfar, the issue isn't so much actual loss, but very variable RTTs leading to spurrious RTOs. rick jones