[PATCH net] net: change tcp_syn_retries documentation
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-01-20 08:12:40
Subsystem:
documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Documentation should be kept consistent with the code: static int tcp_syn_retries_max = MAX_TCP_SYNCNT; #define MAX_TCP_SYNCNT 127 Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index ceb44a0..73b36d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ tcp_fastopen - INTEGER tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt - will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value + will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
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