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[PATCHv5,net-next,4/4] ipv4: Documenting two sysctls for tcp PMTU probe

Message ID 1425611905-28503-5-git-send-email-fan.du@intel.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Fan Du March 6, 2015, 3:18 a.m. UTC
Namely tcp_probe_interval to control how often to restart
a probe. And tcp_probe_threshold to control when stop the
probing in respect to the width of search range in bytes

Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
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 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 1b8c964..4412f69 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -388,6 +388,16 @@  tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
 	  1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
 	  2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
 
+tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER
+	Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
+	Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
+	per RFC4821.
+
+tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
+	Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
+	will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
+	is 8 bytes.
+
 tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
 	By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
 	when the connection closes, so that connections established in the