netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: not allow to set rto

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Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 15:56:40 -0300
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     Michael Tuexen <michael.tuexen@...chi.franken.de>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: not allow to set rto_min with a value below
 200 msecs

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 10:58:35AM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
...
> >>> Patch looks fine, you probably want to note this hard minimum in man(7) sctp as
> >>> well
> >>> 
> >> I'm aware of some signalling networks which use RTO.min of smaller values than 200ms.
> >> So could this be reduced?
> > 
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > What value do they use?
> I have seen values of
> RTO.Min     =  50ms
> RTO.Max     = 200ms
> RTO.Initial = 100ms

Those look doable to me.

Thanks,
Marcelo