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Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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+======================
+DCTCP (DataCenter TCP)
+======================
+
+DCTCP is an enhancement to the TCP congestion control algorithm for data
+center networks and leverages Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in
+the data center network to provide multi-bit feedback to the end hosts.
+
+To enable it on end hosts::
+
+  sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=dctcp
+  sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_ecn_fallback=0 (optional)
+
+All switches in the data center network running DCTCP must support ECN
+marking and be configured for marking when reaching defined switch buffer
+thresholds. The default ECN marking threshold heuristic for DCTCP on
+switches is 20 packets (30KB) at 1Gbps, and 65 packets (~100KB) at 10Gbps,
+but might need further careful tweaking.
+
+For more details, see below documents:
+
+Paper:
+
+The algorithm is further described in detail in the following two
+SIGCOMM/SIGMETRICS papers:
+
+ i) Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert Greenberg, David A. Maltz, Jitendra Padhye,
+    Parveen Patel, Balaji Prabhakar, Sudipta Sengupta, and Murari Sridharan:
+
+      "Data Center TCP (DCTCP)", Data Center Networks session"
+
+      Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, New Delhi, 2010.
+
+    http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP_files/dctcp-final.pdf
+    http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/papers/2010/October/1851275.1851192
+
+ii) Mohammad Alizadeh, Adel Javanmard, and Balaji Prabhakar:
+
+      "Analysis of DCTCP: Stability, Convergence, and Fairness"
+      Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, San Jose, 2011.
+
+    http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP_files/dctcp_analysis-full.pdf
+
+IETF informational draft:
+
+  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bensley-tcpm-dctcp-00
+
+DCTCP site:
+
+  http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP.html