Showing posts with label tcp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tcp. Show all posts

Monday, August 16, 2010

Reducing TCP retransmit timeout?

Cloud networks are lossy and low latency, reducing TCP_RTO_MIN and TCP_DELACK_MIN looks like a good idea, but it looks as if this needs a linux kernel recompile. Anyone else looked at this?
Here is a relevant paper “Safe and Effective Fine-grained TCP Retransmissions for Datacenter Communication“
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vrv/papers/sigcomm147-vasudevan.pdf