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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 1619a8c80873..90b0c4fd275b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -190,6 +190,20 @@ tcp_cookie_size - INTEGER tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs. +tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER + Enable Early Retransmit (ER), per RFC 5827. ER lowers the threshold + for triggering fast retransmit when the amount of outstanding data is + small and when no previously unsent data can be transmitted (such + that limited transmit could be used). + Possible values: + 0 disables ER + 1 enables ER + 2 enables ER but delays fast recovery and fast retransmit + by a fourth of RTT. This mitigates connection falsely + recovers when network has a small degree of reordering + (less than 3 packets). + Default: 2 + tcp_ecn - INTEGER Enable Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in TCP. ECN is only used when both ends of the TCP flow support it. It is useful to @@ -1484,11 +1498,8 @@ addr_scope_policy - INTEGER /proc/sys/net/core/* -dev_weight - INTEGER - The maximum number of packets that kernel can handle on a NAPI - interrupt, it's a Per-CPU variable. + Please see: Documentation/sysctl/net.txt for descriptions of these entries. - Default: 64 /proc/sys/net/unix/* max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER |