kernel_optimize_test/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig
Gerrit Renker 89858ad143 dccp ccid-3: use per-route RTO or TCP RTO as fallback
This makes RTAX_RTO_MIN also available to CCID-3, replacing the compile-time
RTO lower bound with a per-route tunable value.

The original Kconfig option solved the problem that a very low RTT (in the
order of HZ) can trigger too frequent and unnecessary reductions of the
sending rate.

This tunable does not affect the initial RTO value of 2 seconds specified in
RFC 5348, section 4.2 and Appendix B. But like the hardcoded Kconfig value,
it allows to adapt to network conditions.

The same effect as the original Kconfig option of 100ms is now achieved by

> ip route replace to unicast 192.168.0.0/24 rto_min 100j dev eth0

(assuming HZ=1000).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30 13:45:28 -07:00

56 lines
1.7 KiB
Plaintext

menu "DCCP CCIDs Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
config IP_DCCP_CCID2_DEBUG
bool "CCID-2 debugging messages"
---help---
Enable CCID-2 specific debugging messages.
The debugging output can additionally be toggled by setting the
ccid2_debug parameter to 0 or 1.
If in doubt, say N.
config IP_DCCP_CCID3
bool "CCID-3 (TCP-Friendly) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
def_bool y if (IP_DCCP = y || IP_DCCP = m)
---help---
CCID-3 denotes TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC), an equation-based
rate-controlled congestion control mechanism. TFRC is designed to
be reasonably fair when competing for bandwidth with TCP-like flows,
where a flow is "reasonably fair" if its sending rate is generally
within a factor of two of the sending rate of a TCP flow under the
same conditions. However, TFRC has a much lower variation of
throughput over time compared with TCP, which makes CCID-3 more
suitable than CCID-2 for applications such streaming media where a
relatively smooth sending rate is of importance.
CCID-3 is further described in RFC 4342,
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4342.txt
The TFRC congestion control algorithms were initially described in
RFC 5348.
This text was extracted from RFC 4340 (sec. 10.2),
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4340.txt
If in doubt, say N.
config IP_DCCP_CCID3_DEBUG
bool "CCID-3 debugging messages"
depends on IP_DCCP_CCID3
---help---
Enable CCID-3 specific debugging messages.
The debugging output can additionally be toggled by setting the
ccid3_debug parameter to 0 or 1.
If in doubt, say N.
config IP_DCCP_TFRC_LIB
def_bool y if IP_DCCP_CCID3
config IP_DCCP_TFRC_DEBUG
def_bool y if IP_DCCP_CCID3_DEBUG
endmenu