On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 12:49 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > 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.)
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