On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:59:49 +0000 Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > If this an application specific optimization, it should be in a socket option > > > rather than system wide via sysctl. > > Initially I had a similar comment but later decided a sysctl could > > still be useful if > > 1) the entire host (e.g. virtual machine) is dedicated to that application > > 2) that application is difficult to change > > Yes, the customer actually wants a global setting. But as suggested by Neal, > I changed it to be per-namespace to match other TCP tunables. Like congestion control choice, it could be both a sysctl and a socket option. The reason is that delayed ack is already controlled by socket options.
