netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: mark BIC as experimental

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Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:50:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	rhee@....ncsu.edu, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: mark BIC as experimental

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:36:41 -0700

> Change the configuration defaults to mark BIC as experimental.
> BIC is too aggressive and was replaced by CUBIC. Debian was picking
> BIC in their default config (should be fixed by now), but the configuration
> documentation did not make it explicit that this was a bad idea.
> 
> Also update the URLs in the configuration documentation to current
> locations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

I understand your intention, but I'm not so sure we should do this.

It's more than a double standard to make this change, yet still
allow things like HTCP to still be a default.

And you can't even make this selection without asking for
TCP_CONG_ADVANCED.   Well... duh!
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