netdev - Re: [PATCH] Add sysctl to set the advertised TCP initial receive window.

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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:55:43 -0800
From:	Laurent Chavey <chavey@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	therbert@...gle.com, andi@...stfloor.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add sysctl to set the advertised TCP initial receive 
	window.

I like the suggestion, it keeps it in the line of how init_cwnd works now.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:21 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:01:24 -0800
>
>> If we can use larger initial congestion windows on private networks
>> that we know to be
>
> With the keyword here being "network", which is why this must be a
> route attribute not a sysctl with global unilatteral effect.
>
> Otherwise I can tell you what people with both forward and inward
> facing interfaces are going to do, they'll turn the thing on globally
> with your sysctl even though they process real Internet traffic.
>
> No way, we're not going to make it so easy to screw things up.
>
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