Re: [PATCH] tcp: Implement a two-level initial RTO as per draft RFC 2988bis-02.

[tsuna]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:36 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Benoit Sigoure <tsunanet@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 19:22:24 -0700
>
>> Prior to this patch, Linux would always use 3 seconds (compile-time
>> constant) as the initial RTO.  Draft RFC 2988bis-02 proposes to tune
>> this down to 1 second and, in case of a timeout during the TCP 3WHS,
>> revert the RTO back up to 3 seconds when data transmission begins.
>
> We just had a discussion where it was determined that changes to
> these settings are "network specific" and therefore that if it
> is appropriate at all (I'm still not convinced) it is only suitable
> as a routing metric.

Fair enough.  I'll take another stab at it and see if I can change
this to be on a per network basis.  Do I need any patch that's not yet
in Linus' tree?  I'm referring to this:

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Adding many knobs to each clone had a huge cost on previous kernels.
> (Think some machines have millions entries in IP route cache), this used
> quite a lot of memory.
>
> With latest David work, we'll consume less ram, because we can now share
> settings, instead of copying them on each dst entry.

If this has already been merged then it sounds like I should have
everything I need..?

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Benoit "tsuna" Sigoure
Software Engineer @ www.StumbleUpon.com
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