Re: [RFC] cubic: backoff after slow start

2007-08-07 Thread Injong Rhee
ot;Sangtae Ha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:37 PM Subject: [RFC] cubic: backoff after slow start CUBIC takes several unnecessary iterations to converge out of slow start. This is most noticable over a link where the bottleneck queue size is much larger th

[RFC] cubic: backoff after slow start

2007-08-07 Thread Stephen Hemminger
CUBIC takes several unnecessary iterations to converge out of slow start. This is most noticable over a link where the bottleneck queue size is much larger than BDP, and the sender has to "fill the pipe" in slow start before the first loss. Typical consumer broadband links seem to have large (up