Re: dynamic TCP algorithms switching

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:21:12 -0500
yan cui <[email protected]> wrote:

> Then, why include so many (current Linux has 10+ TCP congestion algorithms)
> algorithms? For users who want to deploy their application on Linux
> and if the applications
> are system resource intensive, they always want to tune the
> configurations of the operating systems for the last piece of
> performance. If they do so, maybe they are confused
> about which TCP congestion algorithm to use for their environment. So,
> the only way is to try each algorithm one by one. I understand the
> setting of the default TCP congestion
> algorithm to be Cubic means that it works well for most environments.
> But if others
> are seldom used, or can be replace with another implementation.
> Why not just remove from the kernel?
> 
> Yan

Most are intended for research and testing only.
Only a few are worth considering in a production environment.
That is also why there so many qdisc algorithms as well.