[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>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 65895bb51414..ebc09a159f62 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER
 
 TCP variables: 
 
+tcp_abc - INTEGER
+        Controls Appropriate Byte Count defined in RFC3465. If set to
+        0 then does congestion avoid once per ack. 1 is conservative
+        value, and 2 is more agressive.
+
 tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
         Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
         will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value