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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
TCP protocol
============
-Last updated: 21 June 2005
+Last updated: 9 February 2008
Contents
========
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ A congestion control mechanism can be registered through functions in
tcp_cong.c. The functions used by the congestion control mechanism are
registered via passing a tcp_congestion_ops struct to
tcp_register_congestion_control. As a minimum name, ssthresh,
-cong_avoid, min_cwnd must be valid.
+cong_avoid must be valid.
Private data for a congestion control mechanism is stored in tp->ca_priv.
tcp_ca(tp) returns a pointer to this space. This is preallocated space - it
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ research and RFC's before developing new modules.
The method that is used to determine which congestion control mechanism is
determined by the setting of the sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control.
The default congestion control will be the last one registered (LIFO);
-so if you built everything as modules. the default will be reno. If you
-build with the default's from Kconfig, then BIC will be builtin (not a module)
-and it will end up the default.
+so if you built everything as modules, the default will be reno. If you
+build with the defaults from Kconfig, then CUBIC will be builtin (not a
+module) and it will end up the default.
If you really want a particular default value then you will need
to set it with the sysctl. If you use a sysctl, the module will be autoloaded