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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.

      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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