[tcpm] slowstart after idle question

Ingemar Johansson S <ingemar.s.johansson@ericsson.com> Thu, 20 April 2017 06:42 UTC

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From: Ingemar Johansson S <ingemar.s.johansson@ericsson.com>
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Subject: [tcpm] slowstart after idle question
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Hi

Possibly a question that would fit better in a Linux net dev forum but anyway..

I have one short question. Is slow start after idle generally disabled (net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle=0) for instance  for HTTP video streaming ?.

I can imagine that there are some benefits with avoiding the CWND decrease in idle periods.
Of course there is a problem that a large amount of data is transmitted when new objects are sent to the TCP sockets (shown on page 12 in https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/96/slides/slides-96-iccrg-1.pdf ), but packet pacing can solve this issue.


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