Ilpo Järvinen wrote: > Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt > b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt > index ce16e6a..44ba8d4 100644 > --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt > +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt > @@ -239,6 +239,19 @@ tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER > more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats > up to ~64K of unswappable memory. > > +tcp_max_ssthresh - INTEGER > + Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows defined in > + RFC3742. Limited slow-start is a mechanism to limit grow of the
s/grow/growth/ > + congestion window on the region where congestion window is larger than > + tcp_max_ssthresh. A TCP connection with a large congestion window could > + have its congestion window increased by thousand (or even more) > + segments per RTT by the traditional slow-start procedure which might be > + counter-productive to TCP performance when packet losses start to > + occur. With limited slow-start TCP increments congestion window at > + most tcp_max_ssthresh/2 segments per RTT when the congestion window is I'm not a native English speaker but "at most" sounds a bit awkward to me, maybe change it to "by no more than". But I'm sure someone can find a better phrasing. Baruch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
