diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt | 44 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 44 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 13a857753208..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ -DCTCP (DataCenter TCP) ----------------------- - -DCTCP is an enhancement to the TCP congestion control algorithm for data -center networks and leverages Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in -the data center network to provide multi-bit feedback to the end hosts. - -To enable it on end hosts: - - sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=dctcp - sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_ecn_fallback=0 (optional) - -All switches in the data center network running DCTCP must support ECN -marking and be configured for marking when reaching defined switch buffer -thresholds. The default ECN marking threshold heuristic for DCTCP on -switches is 20 packets (30KB) at 1Gbps, and 65 packets (~100KB) at 10Gbps, -but might need further careful tweaking. - -For more details, see below documents: - -Paper: - -The algorithm is further described in detail in the following two -SIGCOMM/SIGMETRICS papers: - - i) Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert Greenberg, David A. Maltz, Jitendra Padhye, - Parveen Patel, Balaji Prabhakar, Sudipta Sengupta, and Murari Sridharan: - "Data Center TCP (DCTCP)", Data Center Networks session - Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, New Delhi, 2010. - http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP_files/dctcp-final.pdf - http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/papers/2010/October/1851275.1851192 - -ii) Mohammad Alizadeh, Adel Javanmard, and Balaji Prabhakar: - "Analysis of DCTCP: Stability, Convergence, and Fairness" - Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, San Jose, 2011. - http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP_files/dctcp_analysis-full.pdf - -IETF informational draft: - - http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bensley-tcpm-dctcp-00 - -DCTCP site: - - http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP.html |