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

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Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:13:16 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	shemminger@...tta.com, ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi,
	doug.leith@...m.ie, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FYI - TCP/IP thin stream latency

David Miller wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't one get that by being able to tune TCP_RTO_MAX on some sort of 
basis (per dest perhaps)?

rick jones
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