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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>2006-09-13 19:51:02 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-09-17 23:21:02 -0700
commitb3a8a40da5751525936c88f60bbc6a007f9eee37 (patch)
tree4ddbfab5a63407ed9955598834008500d5bcad45 /Documentation/networking
parent3fcde74b3877756f4b4725a883d0b48696c0d369 (diff)
[TCP]: Turn ABC off.
Turn Appropriate Byte Count off by default because it unfairly penalizes applications that do small writes. Add better documentation to describe what it is so users will understand why they might want to turn it on. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 3e0c017e7877..90ed78110fd4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -102,9 +102,15 @@ 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.
+ Controls Appropriate Byte Count (ABC) defined in RFC3465.
+ ABC is a way of increasing congestion window (cwnd) more slowly
+ in response to partial acknowledgments.
+ Possible values are:
+ 0 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment (no ABC)
+ 1 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment of full sized segment
+ 2 allow increase cwnd by two if acknowledgment is
+ of two segments to compensate for delayed acknowledgments.
+ Default: 0 (off)
tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt