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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-01 17:27:01 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-01 17:27:01 -0800
commitfb7d4045669b3ea0e92cf45963839a9808b7650c (patch)
tree4f8f2598bf27dd5ff2a096a3cb40ad83f9796c97 /Documentation
parent100b425480d3a4c7dff4f99bead457d91ad19caf (diff)
parenta9948a7e15015e7f2cb602190322b8ebb00c54c8 (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 [IPV6]: /proc/net/anycast6 unbalanced inet6_dev refcnt [IPX]: Remove ancient changelog [IPX]: Remove outdated information from Kconfig [NET]: Revert socket.h/stat.h ifdef hacks.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.
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index a0f6842368c..d3aae1f9b4c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@ tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
but not loaded.
+tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
+ The initial value of search_low to be used by Packetization Layer
+ Path MTU Discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled,
+ this is the inital MSS used by the connection.
+
tcp_congestion_control - STRING
Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
@@ -243,6 +248,27 @@ tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
memory.
+tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
+ If set, TCP performs receive buffer autotuning, attempting to
+ automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
+ match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by
+ default.
+
+tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
+ Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three
+ values:
+ 0 - Disabled
+ 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
+ 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
+
+tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
+ By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
+ when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
+ near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this
+ increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
+ degredation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
+ connections.
+
tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed
by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to ~50sec-16min