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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>2005-11-10 20:09:53 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-11-10 20:09:53 -0500
commit9772efb970780aeed488c19d8b4afd46c3b484af (patch)
treede016aaa29c8a95e98c7abaa70c8b590160e2886 /Documentation/networking
parent7faffa1c7fb9b8e8917e3225d4e2638270c0a48b (diff)
[TCP]: Appropriate Byte Count support
This is an updated version of the RFC3465 ABC patch originally for Linux 2.6.11-rc4 by Yee-Ting Li. ABC is a way of counting bytes ack'd rather than packets when updating congestion control. The orignal ABC described in the RFC applied to a Reno style algorithm. For advanced congestion control there is little change after leaving slow start. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER
78 78
79TCP variables: 79TCP variables:
80 80
81tcp_abc - INTEGER
82 Controls Appropriate Byte Count defined in RFC3465. If set to
83 0 then does congestion avoid once per ack. 1 is conservative
84 value, and 2 is more agressive.
85
81tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER 86tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
82 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt 87 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
83 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value 88 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value