[TCP]: Update sysctl and congestion control documentation.
Update the documentation to remove the old sysctl values and
include the new congestion control infrastructure. Includes
changes to tcp.txt by Ian McDonald.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index a2c893a7..ab65714 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -304,57 +304,6 @@
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Default: 0
-tcp_westwood - BOOLEAN
- Enable TCP Westwood+ congestion control algorithm.
- TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno
- protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion
- control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set
- congestion window and slow start threshold after a congestion
- episode. Using this estimation, TCP Westwood+ adaptively sets a
- slow start threshold and a congestion window which takes into
- account the bandwidth used at the time congestion is experienced.
- TCP Westwood+ significantly increases fairness wrt TCP Reno in
- wired networks and throughput over wireless links.
- Default: 0
-
-tcp_vegas_cong_avoid - BOOLEAN
- Enable TCP Vegas congestion avoidance algorithm.
- TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates
- the onset of congestion by estimating the bandwidth. TCP Vegas
- adjusts the sending rate by modifying the congestion
- window. TCP Vegas should provide less packet loss, but it is
- not as aggressive as TCP Reno.
- Default:0
-
-tcp_bic - BOOLEAN
- Enable BIC TCP congestion control algorithm.
- BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT
- fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and
- bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes
- called additive increase and binary search increase. When the
- congestion window is large, additive increase with a large
- increment ensures linear RTT fairness as well as good
- scalability. Under small congestion windows, binary search
- increase provides TCP friendliness.
- Default: 0
-
-tcp_bic_low_window - INTEGER
- Sets the threshold window (in packets) where BIC TCP starts to
- adjust the congestion window. Below this threshold BIC TCP behaves
- the same as the default TCP Reno.
- Default: 14
-
-tcp_bic_fast_convergence - BOOLEAN
- Forces BIC TCP to more quickly respond to changes in congestion
- window. Allows two flows sharing the same connection to converge
- more rapidly.
- Default: 1
-
-tcp_default_win_scale - INTEGER
- Sets the minimum window scale TCP will negotiate for on all
- conections.
- Default: 7
-
tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
@@ -368,6 +317,11 @@
where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
rather than intermediate router congestion.
+tcp_congestion_control - STRING
+ Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
+ connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
+ additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
+
somaxconn - INTEGER
Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
Defaults to 128. See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning