Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22] TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable (take 2)

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:51:44 -0700

> 
> TCP's timeouts are perfectly fine, and the only thing you
> might be showing above is that the application timeouts
> are too short or that TCP needs notifications.

The application timeouts are probably being driven by external desires 
for a given recovery time.

TCP notifications don't solve anything unless the links in question are 
local to the machine on which the TCP endpoint resides.

So, it seems that what this is really saying is that in the context of 
Linux at least, TCP is not a suitable protocol to be used in situations 
where a fast detection/recovery is desired.

Does that pretty much sum it up?

rick jones