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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-14 21:37:28 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-14 21:37:28 +0400
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits) netxen: update copyright netxen: fix tx timeout recovery netxen: fix file firmware leak netxen: improve pci memory access netxen: change firmware write size tg3: Fix return ring size breakage netxen: build fix for INET=n cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr() ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded ... Fixed up trivial conflicts: - arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine. - drivers/net/tun.c fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use. Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
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@@ -311,9 +311,12 @@ tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
connections.
tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
- How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed
- by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to ~50sec-16min
- depending on RTO. If you machine is loaded WEB server,
+ This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
+ when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
+ See tcp_retries2 for more details.
+
+ The default value is 7.
+ If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
@@ -327,16 +330,28 @@ tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
certain TCP stacks.
tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
- How many times to retry before deciding that something is wrong
- and it is necessary to report this suspicion to network layer.
- Minimal RFC value is 3, it is default, which corresponds
- to ~3sec-8min depending on RTO.
+ This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
+ something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
+ and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
+ See tcp_retries2 for more details.
+
+ RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
+ default.
tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
- How may times to retry before killing alive TCP connection.
- RFC1122 says that the limit should be longer than 100 sec.
- It is too small number. Default value 15 corresponds to ~13-30min
- depending on RTO.
+ This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
+ when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
+ Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
+ exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
+ retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
+
+ The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
+ seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
+ TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
+ hypothetical timeout.
+
+ RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
+ which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
@@ -1282,6 +1297,16 @@ sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
See tcp_wmem for a description.
+addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
+ Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
+
+ 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
+ 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
+ 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
+ 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
+
+ Default: 1
+
/proc/sys/net/core/*
dev_weight - INTEGER