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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor•org>
To: Tom Herbert <therbert@google•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	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 19:33:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fx1e1sat.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinHGMtfw4Oydfgx0w7QLb-HyYSKdI-4smD-BEkq@mail.gmail.com> (Tom Herbert's message of "Wed\, 26 May 2010 00\:06\:35 -0700")

Tom Herbert <therbert@google•com> writes:
>>
> Thanks to NAT, the concept of a network path or even host specific
> path is a weakened concept.  On the Internet this may be a path
> characteristic per client, which unfortunately has no visibility in
> the kernel other than per connection state.  When a single IP address
> may have thousands of hosts behind it, caching TCP parameters for that
> IP address is implicitly doing a huge aggregation-- probably dicey...

Yes all of Saudi-Arabia used to be (is?) one IP address...

Caching anything per IP is bogus.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux•intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-26 17:33 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 [this message]
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
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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