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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index d46338af600299..90ed78110fd49f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -102,9 +102,15 @@ inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER TCP variables: tcp_abc - INTEGER - Controls Appropriate Byte Count defined in RFC3465. If set to - 0 then does congestion avoid once per ack. 1 is conservative - value, and 2 is more agressive. + Controls Appropriate Byte Count (ABC) defined in RFC3465. + ABC is a way of increasing congestion window (cwnd) more slowly + in response to partial acknowledgments. + Possible values are: + 0 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment (no ABC) + 1 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment of full sized segment + 2 allow increase cwnd by two if acknowledgment is + of two segments to compensate for delayed acknowledgments. + Default: 0 (off) tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt @@ -294,15 +300,15 @@ tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max Default: 87380*2 bytes. tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max - low: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its + min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its memory appetite. pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls - under "low". + under "min". - high: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets. + max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets. Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available memory. |