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From: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: RE: When TCP keepalives tuned shorter than retransmission timeouts
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:50:58 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47086954-fccc-425a-8548-e3c88df93ee7@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1385482822.5352.3.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

> 
> Then change max number of retransmits : tcp_retries2 ?
> 
> Keepalive timer is not a way to defeat TCP exponential backoff.
> 
> Its really there to send probes when a session is idle.
> 

Thanks. We plan to try out TCP_USER_TIMEOUT option since that is settable per-socket.

Venkat

      reply	other threads:[~2013-12-04 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-26 15:51 When TCP keepalives tuned shorter than retransmission timeouts Venkat Venkatsubra
2013-11-26 16:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-12-04 21:50   ` Venkat Venkatsubra [this message]

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