netdev - Re: [PATCH] CUBIC v2.3 with new improved slow start

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Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:08:09 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Injong Rhee <rhee@...u.edu>, Injong Rhee <rhee@....ncsu.edu>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CUBIC v2.3 with new improved slow start

> FWIW, HP-UX and Solaris also have ACK avoidance heursistics - they have 
> a Mentat history - although both should be pretty good and neither 
> should hold-off ACKs for two seconds...

IIRC the last time I looked at a packet trace from a link with LRO 
enabled under "Linux," that too caused "ACK avoidance" - that is we 
stray from the "ACK every other" faith.

rick jones
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