linux/net/dccp
Gerrit Renker dd9c0e363c dccp: Deprecate Ack Ratio sysctl
This patch deprecates the Ack Ratio sysctl, since
 * Ack Ratio is entirely ignored by CCID-3 and CCID-4,
 * Ack Ratio currently doesn't work in CCID-2 (i.e. is always set to 1);
 * even if it would work in CCID-2, there is no point for a user to change it:
   - Ack Ratio is constrained by cwnd (RFC 4341, 6.1.2),
   - if Ack Ratio > cwnd, the system resorts to spurious RTO timeouts
     (since waiting for Acks which will never arrive in this window),
   - cwnd is not a user-configurable value.

The only reasonable place for Ack Ratio is to print it for debugging. It is
planned to do this later on, as part of e.g. dccp_probe.

With this patch Ack Ratio is now under full control of feature negotiation:
 * Ack Ratio is resolved as a dependency of the selected CCID;
 * if the chosen CCID supports it (i.e. CCID == CCID-2), Ack Ratio is set to
   the default of 2, following RFC 4340, 11.3 - "New connections start with Ack
   Ratio 2 for both endpoints";
 * what happens then is part of another patch set, since it concerns the
   dynamic update of Ack Ratio while the connection is in full flight.

Thanks to Tomasz Grobelny for discussion leading up to this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16 22:55:08 -08:00
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ccids dccp: Registration routines for changing feature values 2008-11-12 00:43:40 -08:00
ackvec.c This reverts "Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp" 2008-09-09 13:27:22 +02:00
ackvec.h This reverts "Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp" 2008-09-09 13:27:22 +02:00
ccid.c dccp: Query supported CCIDs 2008-11-12 00:47:26 -08:00
ccid.h dccp: Query supported CCIDs 2008-11-12 00:47:26 -08:00
dccp.h dccp: Deprecate Ack Ratio sysctl 2008-11-16 22:55:08 -08:00
diag.c This reverts "Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp" 2008-09-09 13:27:22 +02:00
feat.c dccp: Deprecate old setsockopt framework 2008-11-16 22:51:23 -08:00
feat.h dccp: Deprecate old setsockopt framework 2008-11-16 22:51:23 -08:00
input.c dccp: Per-socket initialisation of feature negotiation 2008-11-04 23:55:49 -08:00
ipv4.c net: Convert TCP & DCCP hash tables to use RCU / hlist_nulls 2008-11-16 19:40:17 -08:00
ipv6.c net: Convert TCP & DCCP hash tables to use RCU / hlist_nulls 2008-11-16 19:40:17 -08:00
ipv6.h Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Kconfig This reverts "Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp" 2008-09-09 13:27:22 +02:00
Makefile This reverts "Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp" 2008-09-09 13:27:22 +02:00
minisocks.c dccp: Deprecate Ack Ratio sysctl 2008-11-16 22:55:08 -08:00
options.c dccp: Deprecate Ack Ratio sysctl 2008-11-16 22:55:08 -08:00
output.c dccp: Mechanism to resolve CCID dependencies 2008-11-16 22:49:52 -08:00
probe.c net: replace NIPQUAD() in net/*/ 2008-10-31 00:54:56 -07:00
proto.c dccp: Feature negotiation for minimum-checksum-coverage 2008-11-16 22:53:48 -08:00
sysctl.c dccp: Deprecate Ack Ratio sysctl 2008-11-16 22:55:08 -08:00
timer.c dccp: Limit feature negotiation to connection setup phase 2008-11-12 00:42:58 -08:00