Re: ipw2200 and tcp tweaks

Zhu Yi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel
Organization Intel Corp.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 21:50 +0000, Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:
> Is it a good idea to enable the following tcp options when using ipw2200 driver?

I'm not a TCP expert so I cannot answer you. But the question should be
modified from ipw2200 driver to all WLAN devices, since the driver
implementation doesn't affect that much.

The wireless MAC uses CSMA/CA (positive ack normally) and latency is
longer comparing with ethernet. I'd suggest you raise this question to
[email protected].

> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_frto
> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_low_latency
> 
> man tcp(7)
> 
> tcp_frto (Boolean; default: disabled)
>         Enables F-RTO, an enhanced recovery algorithm for  TCP  retrans-
>         mission  timeouts.   It  is  particularly beneficial in wireless
>         environments where packet loss is typically due to random  radio
>         interference rather than intermediate router congestion.
> 
> tcp_low_latency (Boolean; default: disabled)
>         If  enabled,  the  TCP  stack  makes decisions that prefer lower
>         latency as opposed to higher throughput.  It this option is dis-
>         abled,  then  higher  throughput is preferred.  An example of an
>         application where this default should  be  changed  would  be  a
>         Beowulf compute cluster.
> 
> 
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