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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2014-10-27 21:45:24 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-10-29 15:05:15 -0400
commitdca145ffaa8d39ea1904491ac81b92b7049372c0 (patch)
treeebe67ece694b9e54281047a6037b7d5776f9f56b /include/net/tcp.h
parent7aef06db0f91c7b48305d07b62edf43179adb28c (diff)
downloadlinux-dca145ffaa8d39ea1904491ac81b92b7049372c0.tar.gz
tcp: allow for bigger reordering level
While testing upcoming Yaogong patch (converting out of order queue
into an RB tree), I hit the max reordering level of linux TCP stack.

Reordering level was limited to 127 for no good reason, and some
network setups [1] can easily reach this limit and get limited
throughput.

Allow a new max limit of 300, and add a sysctl to allow admins to even
allow bigger (or lower) values if needed.

[1] Aggregation of links, per packet load balancing, fabrics not doing
 deep packet inspections, alternative TCP congestion modules...

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yaogong Wang <wygivan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/tcp.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/tcp.h4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index c73fc145ee45..3a35b1500359 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -70,9 +70,6 @@ void tcp_time_wait(struct sock *sk, int state, int timeo);
 /* After receiving this amount of duplicate ACKs fast retransmit starts. */
 #define TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH 3
 
-/* Maximal reordering. */
-#define TCP_MAX_REORDERING	127
-
 /* Maximal number of ACKs sent quickly to accelerate slow-start. */
 #define TCP_MAX_QUICKACKS	16U
 
@@ -252,6 +249,7 @@ extern int sysctl_tcp_abort_on_overflow;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_max_orphans;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_fack;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_reordering;
+extern int sysctl_tcp_max_reordering;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_dsack;
 extern long sysctl_tcp_mem[3];
 extern int sysctl_tcp_wmem[3];