Message ID | 4D60C849.40905@cn.fujitsu.com |
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State | Accepted, archived |
Delegated to: | David Miller |
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From: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:52:41 +0800 > From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> > > Base on Ilpo's patch about documenting tcp_max_ssthresh. > (see http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=117950581307310&w=2) > > According to errata of RFC3742, fix the number of segments increased > during RTT time. > > Just to state the occasion to use this parameter, But > about how to set parameter value, maybe some others can do it. > > > Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> > Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index ac3b4a7..ea78aac 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -280,6 +280,17 @@ tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats up to ~64K of unswappable memory. +tcp_max_ssthresh - INTEGER + Limited Slow-Start for TCP with large congestion windows (cwnd) defined in + RFC3742. Limited slow-start is a mechanism to limit growth of the cwnd + on the region where cwnd is larger than tcp_max_ssthresh. TCP increases cwnd + by at most tcp_max_ssthresh segments, and by at least tcp_max_ssthresh/2 + segments per RTT when the cwnd is above tcp_max_ssthresh. + If TCP connection increased cwnd to thousands (or tens of thousands) segments, + and thousands of packets were being dropped during slow-start, you can set + tcp_max_ssthresh to improve performance for new TCP connection. + Default: 0 (off) + tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client.