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
next prev parent 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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