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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:41:13 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: rhee@....ncsu.edu, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: mark BIC as experimental On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:50:33 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > 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! Some architectures were setting TCP_CONG_ADVANCED and choosing BIC arch/arm/configs/at91rm9200dk_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/arm/configs/at91rm9200ek_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/arm/configs/ateb9200_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/arm/configs/collie_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/arm/configs/kafa_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/arm/configs/kb9202_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/arm/configs/ks8695_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/arm/configs/lpd7a404_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/arm/configs/netx_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/arm/configs/pnx4008_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/arm/configs/realview_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/arm/configs/versatile_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/ia64/configs/bigsur_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/ia64/configs/gensparse_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/ia64/configs/sim_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/mips/configs/bcm47xx_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/mips/configs/rb532_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=m arch/mips/configs/tb0287_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig:CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=m -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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