tcp: add a sysctl to config the tcp_default_init_rwnd
The default initial rwnd is hardcoded to 10.
Now we allow it to be controlled via
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_init_rwnd
which limits the values from 3 to 100
This is somewhat needed because ipv6 routes are
autoconfigured by the kernel.
See "An Argument for Increasing TCP's Initial Congestion Window"
in https://developers.google.com/speed/articles/tcp_initcwnd_paper.pdf
Change-Id: I386b2a9d62de0ebe05c1ebe1b4bd91b314af5c54
Signed-off-by: JP Abgrall <jpa@google.com>
Git-commit: 969ff3bbb38b6622800a1a4bd38404e3701193de
Git-Repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common.git
[imaund@codeaurora.org: Resolved trivial context conflicts.]
Signed-off-by: Ian Maund <imaund@codeaurora.org>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 7ac6423..08b49f8 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -229,14 +229,13 @@
}
/* Set initial window to a value enough for senders starting with
- * initial congestion window of TCP_DEFAULT_INIT_RCVWND. Place
+ * initial congestion window of sysctl_tcp_default_init_rwnd. Place
* a limit on the initial window when mss is larger than 1460.
*/
if (mss > (1 << *rcv_wscale)) {
- int init_cwnd = TCP_DEFAULT_INIT_RCVWND;
+ int init_cwnd = sysctl_tcp_default_init_rwnd;
if (mss > 1460)
- init_cwnd =
- max_t(u32, (1460 * TCP_DEFAULT_INIT_RCVWND) / mss, 2);
+ init_cwnd = max_t(u32, (1460 * init_cwnd) / mss, 2);
/* when initializing use the value from init_rcv_wnd
* rather than the default from above
*/