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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tcp: Implement a two-level initial RTO as per draft RFC 2988bis-02.
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net> wrote:
> So yes, it CAN be wise to choose other lower/upper bounds. But keep in
> mind that we should NOT artificial limit ourself. I can image data center
> scenarios where a initial RTO of <1 match perfectly.

Yes that's exactly the point I was trying to make when talking to
Alexander offline. On today's Internet, RTTs are easily in the
hundreds of ms, and initRTO is 3s, so there's 2 orders of magnitude of
difference. In my environment, if my RTT is ~2µs, an initRTO of 200ms
means that there's a gap of 6 orders of magnitude (!). And yes,
although I don't work for High Frequency Trading companies in Wall
Street, I'm already buying switches full of line-rate 10Gb ports with
a port-to-port latency of 500ns for L2/L3 forwarding/switching. I
expect this kind of network gear will quickly become prevalent in
datacenter/backend environments.

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