From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753112Ab1EQIbi (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2011 04:31:38 -0400 Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.7.72]:50040 "EHLO mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752232Ab1EQIbg (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2011 04:31:36 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1801 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 04:31:36 EDT MIME-version: 1.0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,224,1304287200"; d="sig'?scan'208";a="55000476" Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Expose the initial RTO via a new sysctl. Content-type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-1-894577629 From: Alexander Zimmermann In-reply-to: <1305618020-72535-2-git-send-email-tsunanet@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 10:01:31 +0200 Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Message-id: References: <1305618020-72535-1-git-send-email-tsunanet@gmail.com> <1305618020-72535-2-git-send-email-tsunanet@gmail.com> To: Benoit Sigoure X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.3.3 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-1-894577629 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Benoit, Am 17.05.2011 um 09:40 schrieb Benoit Sigoure: > Instead of hardcoding the initial RTO to 3s and requiring > the kernel to be recompiled to change it, expose it as a > sysctl that can be tuned at runtime. Leave the default > value unchanged. > regardless of netdev will accept this patch or not, the upcoming initRTO is 1s. See http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-paxson-tcpm-rfc2988bis-02.txt The draft is IESG approved and will become an RFC soon. Alex // // Dipl.-Inform. Alexander Zimmermann // Department of Computer Science, Informatik 4 // RWTH Aachen University // Ahornstr. 55, 52056 Aachen, Germany // phone: (49-241) 80-21422, fax: (49-241) 80-22222 // email: zimmermann@cs.rwth-aachen.de // web: http://www.umic-mesh.net // --Apple-Mail-1-894577629 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: Signierter Teil der Nachricht content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAk3SK1wACgkQdyiq39b9uS73UACfQn3YrE8XnWhfHD2+/K1q3lsJ sfYAoISLXJEz5i0xMXGVAd+TMz8Hn6eT =pW+T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-1-894577629--