Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756048AbZJ2RB5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:01:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756012AbZJ2RB5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:01:57 -0400 Received: from g1t0028.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.35]:42170 "EHLO g1t0028.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756011AbZJ2RB4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:01:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4AE9CA85.9080409@hp.com> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:01:57 -0700 From: Rick Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060601 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Petlund CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ilpo_J=E4rvinen?= , Arnd Hannemann , Eric Dumazet , Netdev , LKML , shemminger@vyatta.com, David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: TCP thin linear timeouts References: <4AE72079.4030504@simula.no> <4AE7262B.1060703@gmail.com> <4AE83FE4.1050309@nets.rwth-aachen.de> <58396856-6D7E-4CE1-8D66-D1F11205B0D5@simula.no> In-Reply-To: <58396856-6D7E-4CE1-8D66-D1F11205B0D5@simula.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 519 Lines: 12 Just how thin can a thin stream be when a thin stream is found thin? (to the cadence of "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?") Does a stream get so thin that a user's send could not be split into four, sub-MSS TCP segments? rick jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/