netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.22] TCP: Make TCP_RTO

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Message-Id: <20070712.132448.115910193.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:24:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	noboru.obata.ar@...achi.com
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable (take 2)

From: OBATA Noboru <noboru.obata.ar@...achi.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:59:50 +0900 (JST)

> How do you think TCP timeouts in Linux can adapt to such changes
> in network environment?

I'm honestly not interested in discussing this any more
and Ian has even showed that the RFCs state that if we have
a maximum it must be at least 60.

So really, there is no chance of merging a TCP_RTO_MAX
decreasing patch, sorry.
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