netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] tcp: introduce tcp_tw_interval to specifiy the time of TIME-WAIT

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Message-ID: <1348814399.7264.44.camel@cr0>
Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:39:59 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, kaber@...sh.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] tcp: introduce tcp_tw_interval to specifiy
 the time of TIME-WAIT

On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 13:05 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> 
> Without appropriate confirmation that an early time-wait reuse is
> valid, decreasing this interval can only be dangerous.

Yeah, would a proper documentation cure this? Something like we did for
other tuning:

"It should not be changed without advice/request of technical experts."


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