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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-04-28 00:01:29 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-04-28 14:38:39 -0700
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docs: networking: convert dctcp.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header; - adjust title markup; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/dctcp.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt)14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/index.rst1
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dctcp.rst
index 13a857753208..4cc8bb2dad50 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dctcp.rst
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+======================
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:
+To enable it on end hosts::
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=dctcp
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_ecn_fallback=0 (optional)
@@ -25,14 +28,19 @@ 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
+
+ "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:
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
index 3894043332de..9e83d3bda4e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ Contents:
cops
cxacru
dccp
+ dctcp
.. only:: subproject and html