From 7e38017557bc0b87434d184f8804cadb102bb903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Petlund Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:48:19 +0000 Subject: net: TCP thin dupack This patch enables fast retransmissions after one dupACK for TCP if the stream is identified as thin. This will reduce latencies for thin streams that are not able to trigger fast retransmissions due to high packet interarrival time. This mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol and the stream is identified as thin. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index f147310d9af..2571a62d923 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -499,6 +499,18 @@ tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt Default: 0 +tcp_thin_dupack - BOOLEAN + Enable dynamic triggering of retransmissions after one dupACK + for thin streams. If set, a check is performed upon reception + of a dupACK to determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 + packets in flight). As long as the stream is found to be thin, + data is retransmitted on the first received dupACK. This + improves retransmission latency for non-aggressive thin + streams, often found to be time-dependent. + For more information on thin streams, see + Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt + Default: 0 + UDP variables: udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2