kernel_optimize_test/net/ipv4
Nandita Dukkipati 356f039822 TCP: increase default initial receive window.
This patch changes the default initial receive window to 10 mss
(defined constant). The default window is limited to the maximum
of 10*1460 and 2*mss (when mss > 1460).

draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-00 is a proposal to the IETF that recommends
increasing TCP's initial congestion window to 10 mss or about 15KB.
Leading up to this proposal were several large-scale live Internet
experiments with an initial congestion window of 10 mss (IW10), where
we showed that the average latency of HTTP responses improved by
approximately 10%. This was accompanied by a slight increase in
retransmission rate (0.5%), most of which is coming from applications
opening multiple simultaneous connections. To understand the extreme
worst case scenarios, and fairness issues (IW10 versus IW3), we further
conducted controlled testbed experiments. We came away finding minimal
negative impact even under low link bandwidths (dial-ups) and small
buffers.  These results are extremely encouraging to adopting IW10.

However, an initial congestion window of 10 mss is useless unless a TCP
receiver advertises an initial receive window of at least 10 mss.
Fortunately, in the large-scale Internet experiments we found that most
widely used operating systems advertised large initial receive windows
of 64KB, allowing us to experiment with a wide range of initial
congestion windows. Linux systems were among the few exceptions that
advertised a small receive window of 6KB. The purpose of this patch is
to fix this shortcoming.

References:
1. A comprehensive list of all IW10 references to date.
http://code.google.com/speed/protocols/tcpm-IW10.html

2. Paper describing results from large-scale Internet experiments with IW10.
http://ccr.sigcomm.org/drupal/?q=node/621

3. Controlled testbed experiments under worst case scenarios and a
fairness study.
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/79/slides/tcpm-0.pdf

4. Raw test data from testbed experiments (Linux senders/receivers)
with initial congestion and receive windows of both 10 mss.
http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/netsrv/?q=content/iw10

5. Internet-Draft. Increasing TCP's Initial Window.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd/

Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-20 21:33:00 -08:00
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netfilter ipv4: Don't pre-seed hoplimit metric. 2010-12-12 22:08:17 -08:00
af_inet.c net: use the macros defined for the members of flowi 2010-11-17 12:27:45 -08:00
ah4.c
arp.c net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl() 2010-12-08 10:07:24 -08:00
cipso_ipv4.c Update broken web addresses in the kernel. 2010-10-18 11:03:14 +02:00
datagram.c net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
devinet.c ipv4: Don't pre-seed hoplimit metric. 2010-12-12 22:08:17 -08:00
esp4.c xfrm: Traffic Flow Confidentiality for IPv4 ESP 2010-12-10 14:43:59 -08:00
fib_frontend.c ipv4: Flush per-ns routing cache more sanely. 2010-12-20 10:37:19 -08:00
fib_hash.c fib: Fix fib zone and its hash leak on namespace stop 2010-10-28 10:27:03 -07:00
fib_lookup.h fib: fib_result_assign() should not change fib refcounts 2010-11-04 12:05:32 -07:00
fib_rules.c fib: RCU conversion of fib_lookup() 2010-10-05 20:39:38 -07:00
fib_semantics.c net: use the macros defined for the members of flowi 2010-11-17 12:27:45 -08:00
fib_trie.c net: allow GFP_HIGHMEM in __vmalloc() 2010-11-21 10:04:04 -08:00
gre.c tunnels: add _rcu annotations 2010-10-25 13:09:45 -07:00
icmp.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-11-19 13:13:47 -08:00
igmp.c igmp: refine skb allocations 2010-11-18 11:02:23 -08:00
inet_connection_sock.c net: optimize INET input path further 2010-12-09 20:05:58 -08:00
inet_diag.c inet_diag: Make sure we actually run the same bytecode we audited. 2010-11-04 12:26:34 -07:00
inet_fragment.c net/ipv4: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanups 2010-07-12 12:57:54 -07:00
inet_hashtables.c inet: Fix __inet_inherit_port() to correctly increment bsockets and num_owners 2010-11-28 18:18:44 -08:00
inet_lro.c
inet_timewait_sock.c
inetpeer.c inetpeer: Kill use of inet_peer_address_t typedef. 2010-12-01 17:28:18 -08:00
ip_forward.c net-next: remove useless union keyword 2010-06-10 23:31:35 -07:00
ip_fragment.c inetpeer: Make inet_getpeer() take an inet_peer_adress_t pointer. 2010-11-30 11:54:19 -08:00
ip_gre.c ipv4: Don't pre-seed hoplimit metric. 2010-12-12 22:08:17 -08:00
ip_input.c net: use this_cpu_ptr() 2010-06-28 23:24:29 -07:00
ip_options.c bridge : Sanitize skb before it enters the IP stack 2010-09-19 12:42:34 -07:00
ip_output.c ipv4: Don't pre-seed hoplimit metric. 2010-12-12 22:08:17 -08:00
ip_sockglue.c ipv4: add __rcu annotations to ip_ra_chain 2010-10-25 14:18:28 -07:00
ipcomp.c
ipconfig.c net: add some KERN_CONT markers to continuation lines 2010-11-28 10:47:17 -08:00
ipip.c ipip: add module alias for tunl0 tunnel device 2010-12-01 12:53:23 -08:00
ipmr.c net: use the macros defined for the members of flowi 2010-11-17 12:27:45 -08:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
Makefile PPTP: PPP over IPv4 (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) 2010-08-21 23:05:39 -07:00
netfilter.c net: use the macros defined for the members of flowi 2010-11-17 12:27:45 -08:00
proc.c tcp: Replace time wait bucket msg by counter 2010-12-08 12:16:33 -08:00
protocol.c net: add __rcu annotations to protocol 2010-10-27 11:37:31 -07:00
raw.c net: use the macros defined for the members of flowi 2010-11-17 12:27:45 -08:00
route.c ipv4: Flush per-ns routing cache more sanely. 2010-12-20 10:37:19 -08:00
syncookies.c net: use the macros defined for the members of flowi 2010-11-17 12:27:45 -08:00
sysctl_net_ipv4.c net: add limits to ip_default_ttl 2010-12-13 12:16:14 -08:00
tcp_bic.c
tcp_cong.c net/ipv4: Eliminate kstrdup memory leak 2010-08-27 19:31:56 -07:00
tcp_cubic.c
tcp_diag.c
tcp_highspeed.c
tcp_htcp.c
tcp_hybla.c TCP: tcp_hybla: Fix integer overflow in slow start increment 2010-06-02 07:15:48 -07:00
tcp_illinois.c Update broken web addresses in the kernel. 2010-10-18 11:03:14 +02:00
tcp_input.c net: Abstract away all dst_entry metrics accesses. 2010-12-09 10:46:36 -08:00
tcp_ipv4.c net: Abstract default ADVMSS behind an accessor. 2010-12-13 12:52:14 -08:00
tcp_lp.c
tcp_minisocks.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-08 13:47:38 -08:00
tcp_output.c TCP: increase default initial receive window. 2010-12-20 21:33:00 -08:00
tcp_probe.c net: ipv4: tcp_probe: cleanup snprintf() use 2010-11-17 12:27:46 -08:00
tcp_scalable.c
tcp_timer.c tcp: use correct counters in CA_CWR state too 2010-10-17 13:46:33 -07:00
tcp_vegas.c
tcp_vegas.h
tcp_veno.c Update broken web addresses in the kernel. 2010-10-18 11:03:14 +02:00
tcp_westwood.c net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
tcp_yeah.c
tcp.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-08 13:47:38 -08:00
tunnel4.c tunnels: add __rcu annotations 2010-10-27 11:37:32 -07:00
udp_impl.h
udp.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
udplite.c net: fix nulls list corruptions in sk_prot_alloc 2010-12-16 14:26:56 -08:00
xfrm4_input.c net/ipv4: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanups 2010-07-12 12:57:54 -07:00
xfrm4_mode_beet.c
xfrm4_mode_transport.c
xfrm4_mode_tunnel.c ipv4: Don't pre-seed hoplimit metric. 2010-12-12 22:08:17 -08:00
xfrm4_output.c
xfrm4_policy.c net: use the macros defined for the members of flowi 2010-11-17 12:27:45 -08:00
xfrm4_state.c xfrm: Allow different selector family in temporary state 2010-09-20 11:11:38 -07:00
xfrm4_tunnel.c net: struct xfrm_tunnel in read_mostly section 2010-08-30 13:50:45 -07:00