diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dctcp.rst similarity index 89% rename from Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt rename to Documentation/networking/dctcp.rst index 13a85775320875a886442375fcfc027628613f2b..4cc8bb2dad50d4c6995c756f1d2716deed351d17 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 3894043332dea360036413534bfc279dedebd31f..9e83d3bda4e0e4e8de1daaf5d98254d993cb6324 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ Contents: cops cxacru dccp + dctcp .. only:: subproject and html