Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753337Ab1ERU0x (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 16:26:53 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:49771 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752532Ab1ERU0w (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 16:26:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:23:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20110518.162306.441229167098643303.davem@davemloft.net> To: hagen@jauu.net Cc: tsunanet@gmail.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Expose the initial RTO via a new sysctl. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20110518202025.GC4175@nuttenaction> References: <20110518.155200.801089483916944725.davem@davemloft.net> <20110518202025.GC4175@nuttenaction> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.2 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Wed, 18 May 2011 13:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 593 Lines: 14 From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:20:25 +0200 > I like the idea to make the initial RTO a knob because we in a > isolated MANET environment have a RTT larger then 1 second. Then this gets back to the fact that this is a network attribute and thus more suitable as a route metric not a global system-wide sysctl. -- 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/