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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt index b89bc82eed4..16a924c486b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ Contents of this document: (*) AF_RXRPC kernel interface. + (*) Configurable parameters. + ======== OVERVIEW @@ -864,3 +866,82 @@ The kernel interface functions are as follows: This is used to allocate a null RxRPC key that can be used to indicate anonymous security for a particular domain. + + +======================= +CONFIGURABLE PARAMETERS +======================= + +The RxRPC protocol driver has a number of configurable parameters that can be +adjusted through sysctls in /proc/net/rxrpc/: + + (*) req_ack_delay + + The amount of time in milliseconds after receiving a packet with the + request-ack flag set before we honour the flag and actually send the + requested ack. + + Usually the other side won't stop sending packets until the advertised + reception window is full (to a maximum of 255 packets), so delaying the + ACK permits several packets to be ACK'd in one go. + + (*) soft_ack_delay + + The amount of time in milliseconds after receiving a new packet before we + generate a soft-ACK to tell the sender that it doesn't need to resend. + + (*) idle_ack_delay + + The amount of time in milliseconds after all the packets currently in the + received queue have been consumed before we generate a hard-ACK to tell + the sender it can free its buffers, assuming no other reason occurs that + we would send an ACK. + + (*) resend_timeout + + The amount of time in milliseconds after transmitting a packet before we + transmit it again, assuming no ACK is received from the receiver telling + us they got it. + + (*) max_call_lifetime + + The maximum amount of time in seconds that a call may be in progress + before we preemptively kill it. + + (*) dead_call_expiry + + The amount of time in seconds before we remove a dead call from the call + list. Dead calls are kept around for a little while for the purpose of + repeating ACK and ABORT packets. + + (*) connection_expiry + + The amount of time in seconds after a connection was last used before we + remove it from the connection list. Whilst a connection is in existence, + it serves as a placeholder for negotiated security; when it is deleted, + the security must be renegotiated. + + (*) transport_expiry + + The amount of time in seconds after a transport was last used before we + remove it from the transport list. Whilst a transport is in existence, it + serves to anchor the peer data and keeps the connection ID counter. + + (*) rxrpc_rx_window_size + + The size of the receive window in packets. This is the maximum number of + unconsumed received packets we're willing to hold in memory for any + particular call. + + (*) rxrpc_rx_mtu + + The maximum packet MTU size that we're willing to receive in bytes. This + indicates to the peer whether we're willing to accept jumbo packets. + + (*) rxrpc_rx_jumbo_max + + The maximum number of packets that we're willing to accept in a jumbo + packet. Non-terminal packets in a jumbo packet must contain a four byte + header plus exactly 1412 bytes of data. The terminal packet must contain + a four byte header plus any amount of data. In any event, a jumbo packet + may not exceed rxrpc_rx_mtu in size. |