On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:47:03PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > I disagree with Linux changing it's behavior. It would be great to > > > turn off congestion control completely over local gigabit networks, > > > but that isn't determinable in any way, so we don't do that. > > > > Interesting. Would it make sense to make it another tunable knob in > > /proc, sysfs or sysctl then? > > that's not the right level; since that is per interface. And you only > know the actual interface waay too late (as per earlier posts). > Per socket.. maybe > But then again it's not impossible to have packets for one socket go out > to multiple interfaces > (think load balancing bonding over 2 interfaces, one IB another > ethernet)
I read it as if he was proposing to have a sysctl knob to turn off TCP congestion control completely (which has so many issues it's not even funny.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
