Re: [tcpm] Increasing the Initial Window - Notes

Michael Welzl <michawe@ifi.uio.no> Thu, 11 November 2010 10:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] Increasing the Initial Window - Notes
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On Nov 11, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:

> On 2010-11-11, at 18:28, Michael Welzl wrote:
>> Why not make this something that could be enabled on a per-socket  
>> basis? I mean, I can decide whether my socket does Nagle or not,  
>> why not let the programmer decide where in the range from 4 to 10  
>> the IW should be, with a socket option or something?
>
> It will be REALLY hard to explain to folks why they should limit  
> themselves to 10, if we make this a generic socket option.

Provide 4-10 available in the option, not more, based on Google's data?