netdev - Re: FYI - TCP/IP thin stream latency

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Message-Id: <20081028.221351.172447876.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:13:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, doug.leith@...m.ie,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FYI - TCP/IP thin stream latency

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:59:38 -0700

> I was reading "Removing Exponential Backoff from TCP" by Mondal and
> Kusmznovic at Northwesetern in ACM CCR. The paper tries to show that
> nothing breaks by getting rid of backoff. Interestingly, FreeBSD
> already doesn't do backoff until after 5th retry.

Cell phone network folks want this (or something like it) too.
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