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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi,
	doug.leith@nuim.ie, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FYI - TCP/IP thin stream latency
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:13:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4908A7BC.1060905@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081028.221351.172447876.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:59:38 -0700
> 
> 
>>I was reading "Removing Exponential Backoff from TCP" by Mondal and
>>Kusmznovic at Northwesetern in ACM CCR. The paper tries to show that
>>nothing breaks by getting rid of backoff. Interestingly, FreeBSD
>>already doesn't do backoff until after 5th retry.
> 
> 
> Cell phone network folks want this (or something like it) too.

Wouldn't one get that by being able to tune TCP_RTO_MAX on some sort of 
basis (per dest perhaps)?

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20081016095518.749ae6e9@speedy>
     [not found] ` <20081022.221410.139436406.davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-23 12:22   ` FYI - TCP/IP thin stream latency Ilpo Järvinen
2008-10-24 14:59     ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-10-29  5:13       ` David Miller
2008-10-29 18:13         ` Rick Jones [this message]
2008-11-08 11:16       ` Douglas Leith
2008-10-28 22:48     ` David Miller
2008-11-24 14:00       ` Ilpo Järvinen

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