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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index ce8fbf5aa63c..f4c042be0216 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -733,11 +733,11 @@ tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket. TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can - result in a large amount of packets queued in qdisc/device - on the local machine, hurting latency of other flows, for - typical pfifo_fast qdiscs. - tcp_limit_output_bytes limits the number of bytes on qdisc - or device to reduce artificial RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat. + result in a large amount of packets queued on the local machine + (e.g.: qdiscs, CPU backlog, or device) hurting latency of other + flows, for typical pfifo_fast qdiscs. tcp_limit_output_bytes + limits the number of bytes on qdisc or device to reduce artificial + RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat. Default: 262144 tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER |