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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com,
	shemminger@vyatta.com, dusanc@gmail.com, romieu@fr.zoreil.com,
	hancockr@shaw.ca, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] bridge: STP timer management range checking
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:00:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BDD3A8.6070500@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902.164130.156055373.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:40:46 -0700
>>Can one change the TCP maximum RTO to be smaller than specified in the specs? 
> We always min-clamp the RTO at RTO calculation time in order to be
> compatible with BSD's coarse grained times.

But tuning TCP_RTO_MAX isn't permitted right?  I'm drawing (perhaps 
flawed) parallels/distinctions between what is/isn't permitted to tweak 
for timers for one protocol versus another and wondering which may be a 
case of sauce for the goose/gander.

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.wTMiBcGRgw2fBtdHwtX7y0lkc8s@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <48975BD3.6040709@shaw.ca>
2008-08-04 20:37   ` ksoftirqd high cpu load on kernels 2.6.24 to 2.6.27-rc1-mm1 Dushan Tcholich
2008-08-07 18:58     ` Francois Romieu
2008-08-10 19:00       ` Dushan Tcholich
2008-08-11  7:53         ` Dushan Tcholich
2008-08-30  1:48           ` Dushan Tcholich
2008-08-31  8:51             ` Dushan Tcholich
2008-08-31 17:05               ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-31 17:43                 ` [RFC] bridge: STP timer management range checking Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-31 22:02                   ` Alan Cox
2008-08-31 23:29                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-09-01  8:38                       ` Alan Cox
2008-09-02 16:40                         ` Rick Jones
2008-09-02 23:41                           ` David Miller
2008-09-03  0:00                             ` Rick Jones [this message]
2008-09-01  2:25                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-09-03  0:28                   ` David Miller
2008-09-04 22:47                   ` [PATCH] bridge: don't allow setting hello time to zero Stephen Hemminger
2008-09-08 20:46                     ` David Miller
2008-09-08 21:35                       ` Dushan Tcholich
2008-09-08 22:33                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-31 19:14                 ` ksoftirqd high cpu load on kernels 2.6.24 to 2.6.27-rc1-mm1 Dushan Tcholich

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