Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus

[pandora-kernel.git] / Documentation / networking / ip-sysctl.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index d99940d..d3d653a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ tcp_cookie_size - INTEGER
 tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
        Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
 
-tcp_ecn - BOOLEAN
+tcp_ecn - INTEGER
        Enable Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in TCP. ECN is only
        used when both ends of the TCP flow support it. It is useful to
        avoid losses due to congestion (when the bottleneck router supports
@@ -280,6 +280,17 @@ tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
        more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
        up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
 
+tcp_max_ssthresh - INTEGER
+       Limited Slow-Start for TCP with large congestion windows (cwnd) defined in
+       RFC3742. Limited slow-start is a mechanism to limit growth of the cwnd
+       on the region where cwnd is larger than tcp_max_ssthresh. TCP increases cwnd
+       by at most tcp_max_ssthresh segments, and by at least tcp_max_ssthresh/2
+       segments per RTT when the cwnd is above tcp_max_ssthresh.
+       If TCP connection increased cwnd to thousands (or tens of thousands) segments,
+       and thousands of packets were being dropped during slow-start, you can set
+       tcp_max_ssthresh to improve performance for new TCP connection.
+       Default: 0 (off)
+
 tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
        Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are
        still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client.