From: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
To: andi@firstfloor•org
Cc: therbert@google•com, shemminger@vyatta•com,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, ycheng@google•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Socket option to set congestion window
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 15:10:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100526.151014.70204145.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100526212745.GC24615@basil.fritz.box>
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor•org>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 23:27:45 +0200
> As I understand the idea was that the application knows
> what flows belong to a single peer and wants to have
> a single cwnd for all of those. Perhaps there would
> be a way to generalize that to tell it to the kernel.
>
> e.g. have a "peer id" that is known by applications
> and the kernel could manage cwnds shared between connections
> associated with the same peer id?
>
> Just an idea, I admit I haven't thought very deeply
> about this. Feel free to poke holes into it.
Yes, a CWND "domain" that can include multiple sockets is
something that might gain some traction.
The "domain" could just simply be the tuple {process,peer-IP}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-26 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-26 5:01 [PATCH] tcp: Socket option to set congestion window Tom Herbert
2010-05-26 5:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-26 5:52 ` David Miller
2010-05-26 7:06 ` Tom Herbert
2010-05-26 7:33 ` David Miller
2010-05-26 17:33 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-26 17:41 ` Denys Fedorysychenko
2010-05-26 21:08 ` David Miller
2010-05-26 21:27 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-26 22:10 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-05-26 22:29 ` Rick Jones
2010-05-27 7:57 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-26 23:15 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-05-27 3:04 ` David Miller
2010-05-27 7:08 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-05-27 7:28 ` David Miller
2010-05-27 7:46 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-05-27 16:14 ` Tom Herbert
2010-05-27 18:56 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-27 19:19 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-05-27 8:00 ` Andi Kleen
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