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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0d5dfbc89ec9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +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 + +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 |