linux/include
Kevin(Yudong) Yang 65e6d90168 net-tcp: Disable TCP ssthresh metrics cache by default
This patch introduces a sysctl knob "net.ipv4.tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save"
that disables TCP ssthresh metrics cache by default. Other parts of TCP
metrics cache, e.g. rtt, cwnd, remain unchanged.

As modern networks becoming more and more dynamic, TCP metrics cache
today often causes more harm than benefits. For example, the same IP
address is often shared by different subscribers behind NAT in residential
networks. Even if the IP address is not shared by different users,
caching the slow-start threshold of a previous short flow using loss-based
congestion control (e.g. cubic) often causes the future longer flows of
the same network path to exit slow-start prematurely with abysmal
throughput.

Caching ssthresh is very risky and can lead to terrible performance.
Therefore it makes sense to make disabling ssthresh caching by
default and opt-in for specific networks by the administrators.
This practice also has worked well for several years of deployment with
CUBIC congestion control at Google.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin(Yudong) Yang <yyd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-12-09 20:17:48 -08:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpi-utils', 'acpi-platform', 'acpi-video' and 'acpi-doc' 2019-11-26 10:30:49 +01:00
asm-generic powerpc updates for 5.5 #2 2019-12-06 13:36:31 -08:00
clocksource
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linux Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-12-08 13:28:11 -08:00
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media drm main pull for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-27 17:45:48 -08:00
misc
net net-tcp: Disable TCP ssthresh metrics cache by default 2019-12-09 20:17:48 -08:00
pcmcia
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rdma hmm related patches for 5.5 2019-11-30 10:33:14 -08:00
scsi scsi: target: iscsi: Wait for all commands to finish before freeing a session 2019-11-19 21:37:35 -05:00
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trace This is a relatively quiet cycle for nfsd, mainly various bugfixes. 2019-12-07 16:56:00 -08:00
uapi net: WireGuard secure network tunnel 2019-12-08 17:48:42 -08:00
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