From 713bafea92920103cd3d361657406cf04d0e22dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuchung Cheng Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 13:01:26 -0800 Subject: tcp: retire FACK loss detection FACK loss detection has been disabled by default and the successor RACK subsumed FACK and can handle reordering better. This patch removes FACK to simplify TCP loss recovery. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index d8676dda7fa6..46c7e1085efc 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -289,8 +289,7 @@ tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN Default: 1 (fallback enabled) tcp_fack - BOOLEAN - Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission. - The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled. + This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore. tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any -- cgit v1.2.3