Subject: Re: high latency with TCP connections

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:00:42 -0700

David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:27:27 -0700
> 
> 
>>Linux TCP implements "Appropriate Byte Count" (ABC) and this penalizes
>>applications that do small sends. The problem is that the other side
>>may be delaying acknowledgments.  If receiver doesn't acknowledge the
>>sender will limit itself to the congestion window. If the flow is light,
>>then you will be limited to 4 packets.
> 
> 
> Right.
> 
> However it occured to me the other day that ABC could be made smarter.
> If we sent small frames, ABC should account for that.

Is that part of the application of a byte-based RFC to packet-counting cwnd?

rick jones