netdev - Re: [PATCH] [TCP] Sysctl: document tcp_max

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Date:	Sat, 19 May 2007 10:24:01 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	John Heffner <jheffner@....edu>
cc:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>, Baruch Even <baruch@...en.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TCP] Sysctl: document tcp_max_ssthresh (Limited
 Slow-Start)

On Fri, 18 May 2007, John Heffner wrote:

> Rick Jones wrote:
> > as an asside, "tcp_max_ssthresh" sounds like the maximum value ssthresh can
> > take-on.  is that correct, or is this more of a "once ssthresh is above
> > this, behave in this new way?"  If that is the case, while the 
> 
> I don't like it either, but you'll have to talk to Sally Floyd about that
> one.. ;)
> 
> In general, I would like the documentation to emphasize more how to set the
> parameter than describe the algorithm.  The max_ssthresh parameter should
> ideally be set to the bottleneck queue size, or more realistically a
> conservative value that's likely to be smaller than the bottleneck queue
> size.  When max_ssthresh is smaller than the bottleneck queue, (limited) slow
> start will not overflow it until cwnd has fully ramped up to the appropriate
> size.

...You probably know such things much better than I do, so could you 
please write it then...

-- 
 i.
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