Nivedita Singhvi wrote:
> our default init rto is 300, so currently we're going to timeout
> on anything thats a 100ms over the min of 200. that is far
> less conservative than setting an rto of 200 when your round
> trip time is a thousand or 10,000 times less..does that make sense?
Doh! init rto is NOT 300ms, its 3 seconds. That minor blooper
shreds my comparison argument a tad :)..but Dave's point renders
that moot, in any case..
"David S. Miller" wrote:
> Actually, TCP_RTO_MIN cannot be made any smaller without
> some serious thought.
>
> The reason it is 200ms is due to the granularity of the BSD
> TCP socket timers.
>
> In short, the repercussions are not exactly well known, so it's
> a research problem to fiddle here.
Ack.
Sometime in the not too distant future, the next generation of
infrastructure will require this to be reworked :).
thanks,
Nivedita
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