From: "Anatoly Sivov" <mm05@mail.ru>
To: "John Heffner" <johnwheffner@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tcp_mtu_probe implementation details
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:15:02 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.v6z4rcupfzo5me@stalin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABrhC0mhuY75Y0Q_dkkPMH4si1OinM3bvpK_cHhOwQRpAAFu2A@mail.gmail.com>
Hello John,
Thanks for clarifications.
> A cwnd of 11 pre-probe will result in a cwnd of 6 after a successful
> probe. (By the time the probe succeeds, cwnd will have been increased
> to 12, then doubling MSS will halve cwnd to 6.) A window size smaller
> than this makes TCP more vulnerable to double loss events and
> increases the likeliness of timeouts.
Perhaps, it's worth of being mentioned in comment inside of tcp_mtu_probe.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-24 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-20 21:49 tcp_mtu_probe implementation details Anatoly Sivov
2011-12-20 22:33 ` Vijay Subramanian
2011-12-21 9:50 ` Anatoly Sivov
2011-12-24 15:03 ` John Heffner
2011-12-24 16:15 ` Anatoly Sivov [this message]
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