netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: Increase the initial congestion window to 10.

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Date:	Thu, 3 Feb 2011 23:55:54 +0100
From:	Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net>
To:	"H.K. Jerry Chu" <hkjerry.chu@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	dccp@...r.kernel.org, therbert@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Increase the initial congestion window to 10.

* H.K. Jerry Chu | 2011-02-03 13:17:19 [-0800]:

>> to setup a ns-2 environment but due to lack of time I am a little bit
>> behind schedule. Anyway, why not make this a tunable per route knob so that
>> it is easier to fix things, e.g. set IW back to 3.
>
>You've seemed to get this backwards. Shouldn't we set the default for the normal
>cases and leave the corner cases to the initcwnd and initrwnd knobs to cover?

Yes Jerry, I phrase this a little bit abstruse. Apply David patch and use per
route options to reduce the IW if some curious behavior appear.

It seems the time is come to increase the IW. ;-)

Hagen


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