From b824892b5780fb527f784ed0ce0eb7e9f7f707fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: andre Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:47:46 +0000 Subject: Increase the initial CWND to 10 segments as defined in IETF TCPM draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-05. It explains why the increased initial window improves the overall performance of many web services without risking congestion collapse. As long as it remains a draft it is placed under a sysctl marking it as experimental: net.inet.tcp.experimental.initcwnd10 = 1 When it becomes an official RFC soon the sysctl will be changed to the RFC number and moved to net.inet.tcp. This implementation differs from the RFC draft in that it is a bit more conservative in the case of packet loss on SYN or SYN|ACK because we haven't reduced the default RTO to 1 second yet. Also the restart window isn't yet increased as allowed. Both will be adjusted with upcoming changes. Is is enabled by default. In Linux it is enabled since kernel 3.0. MFC after: 2 weeks --- sys/netinet/tcp_var.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'sys/netinet/tcp_var.h') diff --git a/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h b/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h index 90ecca1..2e2a016 100644 --- a/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h +++ b/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h @@ -611,6 +611,7 @@ VNET_DECLARE(int, tcp_mssdflt); /* XXX */ VNET_DECLARE(int, tcp_minmss); VNET_DECLARE(int, tcp_delack_enabled); VNET_DECLARE(int, tcp_do_rfc3390); +VNET_DECLARE(int, tcp_do_initcwnd10); VNET_DECLARE(int, tcp_sendspace); VNET_DECLARE(int, tcp_recvspace); VNET_DECLARE(int, path_mtu_discovery); @@ -623,6 +624,7 @@ VNET_DECLARE(int, tcp_abc_l_var); #define V_tcp_minmss VNET(tcp_minmss) #define V_tcp_delack_enabled VNET(tcp_delack_enabled) #define V_tcp_do_rfc3390 VNET(tcp_do_rfc3390) +#define V_tcp_do_initcwnd10 VNET(tcp_do_initcwnd10) #define V_tcp_sendspace VNET(tcp_sendspace) #define V_tcp_recvspace VNET(tcp_recvspace) #define V_path_mtu_discovery VNET(path_mtu_discovery) -- cgit v1.1