Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.rst

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4 Thin-streams and TCP
7 A wide range of Internet-based services that use reliable transport
8 protocols display what we call thin-stream properties. This means
10 retransmission mechanisms of the transport protocol are not fully
11 effective. In time-dependent scenarios (like online games, control
14 the service quality. Extreme latencies are caused by TCP's
15 dependency on the arrival of new data from the application to trigger
16 retransmissions effectively through fast retransmit instead of
19 After analysing a large number of time-dependent interactive
22 lifespan. The combination of time-dependency and the fact that the
25 In order to reduce application-layer latency when packets are lost,
26 a set of mechanisms has been made, which address these latency issues
35 of packets in flight. If there are less than 4 packets in flight,
39 Since these mechanisms are targeted at time-dependent applications,
47 More information on the modifications, as well as a wide range of
50 "Improving latency for interactive, thin-stream applications over