From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
shemminger@vyatta.com, ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: TCP thin linear timeouts
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:56:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE7262B.1060703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE72079.4030504@simula.no>
Andreas Petlund a écrit :
> This patch will make TCP use only linear timeouts if the stream is thin. This will help to avoid the very high latencies that thin stream suffer because of exponential backoff. This mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol and the stream is identified as thin.
>
Wont this reduce the session timeout to something very small, ie 15 retransmits, way under the minute ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-27 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-27 16:31 [PATCH 2/3] net: TCP thin linear timeouts Andreas Petlund
2009-10-27 16:56 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-10-28 12:58 ` Arnd Hannemann
2009-10-28 14:31 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-10-29 13:51 ` Andreas Petlund
2009-10-29 14:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-29 17:01 ` Rick Jones
[not found] ` <07CD1135-C68B-4264-8CD3-C4BC0400FDA2@simula.no>
2009-10-29 16:11 ` Arnd Hannemann
2009-10-28 3:20 ` William Allen Simpson
2009-10-29 13:50 ` Andreas Petlund
2009-10-28 14:18 ` Ilpo Järvinen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-29 15:14 apetlund
2009-10-29 15:19 apetlund
2009-10-29 15:43 apetlund
2009-10-29 15:50 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-29 20:52 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-10-29 16:54 apetlund
2009-10-30 10:48 apetlund
2009-10-30 17:33 ` Rick Jones
2009-10-30 18:11 ` William Allen Simpson
2009-11-05 13:37 ` Andreas Petlund
2009-10-30 15:27 apetlund
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