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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> | 2005-06-23 12:24:09 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2005-06-23 12:24:09 -0700 |
| commit | 8727076289ec55298a05cabddf02b374d13c1624 (patch) | |
| tree | 37e6f68aac7be9cbbb4e90ca87a6e592c155eb35 /net/ipv4/Kconfig | |
| parent | 83803034f4233d810c4adc52008921da060c55d1 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-8727076289ec55298a05cabddf02b374d13c1624.tar.gz lwn-8727076289ec55298a05cabddf02b374d13c1624.zip | |
[TCP]: Add TCP Westwood congestion control module.
This is the existing 2.6.12 Westwood code moved from tcp_input
to the new congestion framework. A lot of the inline functions
have been eliminated to try and make it clearer.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/Kconfig | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig index 712ebacacb62..adbe855d931a 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig @@ -452,6 +452,21 @@ config TCP_CONG_BIC increase provides TCP friendliness. See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/ +config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD + tristate "TCP Westwood+" + depends on INET + default m + ---help--- + TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno + protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion + control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set + congestion window and slow start threshold after a congestion + episode. Using this estimation, TCP Westwood+ adaptively sets a + slow start threshold and a congestion window which takes into + account the bandwidth used at the time congestion is experienced. + TCP Westwood+ significantly increases fairness wrt TCP Reno in + wired networks and throughput over wireless links. + endmenu source "net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig" |