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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-03-01 20:27:01 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-03-01 20:27:01 -0500 |
commit | fb7d4045669b3ea0e92cf45963839a9808b7650c (patch) | |
tree | 4f8f2598bf27dd5ff2a096a3cb40ad83f9796c97 /Documentation | |
parent | 100b425480d3a4c7dff4f99bead457d91ad19caf (diff) | |
parent | a9948a7e15015e7f2cb602190322b8ebb00c54c8 (diff) |
Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[TCP]: Fix minisock tcp_create_openreq_child() typo.
[TCP]: Document several sysctls.
[NET]: Fix kfree(skb)
[NET]: Handle disabled preemption in gfp_any()
[BRIDGE]: Fix locking of set path cost.
[IPV6]: /proc/net/anycast6 unbalanced inet6_dev refcnt
[IPX]: Remove ancient changelog
[IPX]: Remove outdated information from Kconfig
[NET]: Revert socket.h/stat.h ifdef hacks.
[IPV6]: anycast refcnt fix
[XFRM] xfrm_user: Fix return values of xfrm_add_sa_expire.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index a0f6842368c3..d3aae1f9b4c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | |||
@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@ tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING | |||
147 | More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules, | 147 | More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules, |
148 | but not loaded. | 148 | but not loaded. |
149 | 149 | ||
150 | tcp_base_mss - INTEGER | ||
151 | The initial value of search_low to be used by Packetization Layer | ||
152 | Path MTU Discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled, | ||
153 | this is the inital MSS used by the connection. | ||
154 | |||
150 | tcp_congestion_control - STRING | 155 | tcp_congestion_control - STRING |
151 | Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new | 156 | Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new |
152 | connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but | 157 | connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but |
@@ -243,6 +248,27 @@ tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max | |||
243 | Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available | 248 | Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available |
244 | memory. | 249 | memory. |
245 | 250 | ||
251 | tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN | ||
252 | If set, TCP performs receive buffer autotuning, attempting to | ||
253 | automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to | ||
254 | match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by | ||
255 | default. | ||
256 | |||
257 | tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER | ||
258 | Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three | ||
259 | values: | ||
260 | 0 - Disabled | ||
261 | 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected | ||
262 | 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss. | ||
263 | |||
264 | tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN | ||
265 | By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache | ||
266 | when the connection closes, so that connections established in the | ||
267 | near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this | ||
268 | increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance | ||
269 | degredation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing | ||
270 | connections. | ||
271 | |||
246 | tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER | 272 | tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER |
247 | How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed | 273 | How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed |
248 | by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to ~50sec-16min | 274 | by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to ~50sec-16min |