On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Jet Chen wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
> 
> FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> 
> commit b58537a1f5629bdc98a8b9dc2051ce0e952f6b4b ("net: sctp: fix permissions
> for rto_alpha and rto_beta knobs")
> 

There's no way this is legitimate, that commit cannot possibly affect the 
performance of netperf.  I wouldn't bother to spend any time investigating 
this.