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From: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Networking Developer Mailing List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Modifying the exponential backoff on new connection SYN packets
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:52:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51643935.6070201@wildgooses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365520328.3887.141.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On 09/04/2013 16:12, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 06:48 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>> You'll have to change inet_csk_reqsk_queue_prune() in
>> net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
>>
>> timeo = min(timeout << req->num_timeout, max_rto);
>> req->expires = now + timeo;
>>
>> Good luck !
> Oh well, this code is for SYNACK retransmits...
>
> For other retransmits, you'll have to take a look in
> net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c, around lines 475
>
> icsk->icsk_rto = min(icsk->icsk_rto << 1, TCP_RTO_MAX);
>
>

Hmm, I don't necessarily want to change the normal data timeouts, just 
the initial SYN timeouts. How might I make detect that I'm in SYN state 
and cap the timer appropriately? Apologies for beginner questions...

Thanks

Ed W

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-09 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-09  9:06 Modifying the exponential backoff on new connection SYN packets Ed W
2013-04-09 13:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-09 15:12   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-09 15:52     ` Ed W [this message]
2013-04-09 16:03       ` Eric Dumazet

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