On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:07:50 -0800 (PST), David Miller wrote: > >> +/* TCP initial congestion window */ >> +#define TCP_INIT_CWND 10 >> + > > Davem, there is _no_ research how this huge IW will behave in environments > with a small BDP. Belief it or not, but there are networks out there with a > BDP similar to ~1980. Why for heaven's sake should this work in these > environments? There are only _two_ extensive analysis one from Cherry and > and one from Ilpo. Both analysis focus on current mainstream BDP. I started > 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. There's already a per-route tunable, right (RTAX_INITCWND)? -John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dccp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
