Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753910Ab0BVPRg (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:17:36 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:60758 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753804Ab0BVPRe (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:17:34 -0500 To: Lars Eggert Cc: David Miller , "zimmermann@nets.rwth-aachen.de" , "pavel@ucw.cz" , "apetlund@simula.no" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi" , "eric.dumazet@gmail.com" , "Arnd.Hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "shemminger@vyatta.com" , "william.allen.simpson@gmail.com" , "damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de" , "ebiederm@xmission.com" Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v4 1/3] net: TCP thin-stream detection From: Andi Kleen References: <20100221102102.GB1311@ucw.cz> <2EC47E8B-BC4C-4DAB-86ED-F702D67F8AD0@nokia.com> <20100221.150311.193707249.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:17:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Lars Eggert's message of "Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:41:32 +0200") Message-ID: <87k4u5mh9u.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 623 Lines: 20 Lars Eggert writes: > If it's off by default there is no issue. Still a sufficient large number of people might turn it on and then the network would melt. IMHO TCP changes with badly understood congestion behaviour should not be merged until the necessary analysis/simulation etc. is done. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/