netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4, linux-2.6.30.4

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Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:02:04 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Daniel Slot <slot.daniel@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4, linux-2.6.30.4

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:50:59 +0200
Daniel Slot <slot.daniel@...il.com> wrote:

> RFC 4653 specifies Non-Congestion Robustness (NCR) for TCP.
> In the absence of explicit congestion notification from the network,
> TCP uses loss as an indication of congestion.
> One of the ways TCP detects loss is using the arrival of three
> duplicate acknowledgments.
> However, this heuristic is not always correct, notably in the case
> when network paths reorder segments (for whatever reason), resulting
> in degraded performance.
> TCP-NCR is designed to mitigate this degraded performance by
> increasing the number of duplicate acknowledgments required to trigger
> loss recovery,
> based on the current state of the connection, in an effort to better
> disambiguate true segment loss from segment reordering.
> This document specifies the changes to TCP, as well as the costs and
> benefits of these modifications.
> 
> This patch adds TCP-NCR as socket option to the Linux kernel (version 2.6.30.4).
> Written by Daniel Slot, Email: slot.daniel(at)gmail.com

Patch has funny indentation and awkward naming for socket elements.
Your style needs to match existing code.

What is the usage model for this? I expect that some user who wants
to enable this would be stuck somewhere with a lossy network and
would want to enable it. Or is it something only researchers will
want to play with?

It would be easier to use a sysctl value for this because otherwise
each application has to be changed to select the socket option.

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