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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 12 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 2dc7a1d97686..f147310d9af4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -487,6 +487,18 @@ tcp_dma_copybreak - INTEGER and CONFIG_NET_DMA is enabled. Default: 4096 +tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN + Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams. + If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to + determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight). + As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear + timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is + initiated. This improves retransmission latency for + non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent. + For more information on thin streams, see + Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt + Default: 0 + UDP variables: udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max |