netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: use TCP_INIT_CWND in tcp_fixup

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Date:	Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:55:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: use TCP_INIT_CWND in tcp_fixup_sndbuf()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:24:42 +0200

> Initial cwnd being 10 (TCP_INIT_CWND) instead of 3, change
> tcp_fixup_sndbuf() to get more than 16384 bytes (sysctl_tcp_wmem[1]) in
> initial sk_sndbuf
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.  Another reason to obliterate all magic constants :-)

> I believe a similar change in tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() is needed too.

And tcp_init_buffer_space() has a similar set of "4 * tp->advmss"
calculations.

And then some "2 * tp->advmss" cases, also having to do with window
clamping.
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