docs: networking: convert tcp-thin.txt to ReST

Not much to be done here:

- add SPDX header;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed;
- 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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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2020-04-30 18:04:29 +02:00 committed by David S. Miller
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strparser
switchdev
tc-actions-env-rules
tcp-thin
.. only:: subproject and html

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initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
For more information on thin streams, see
Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.rst
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
====================
Thin-streams and TCP
====================
A wide range of Internet-based services that use reliable transport
protocols display what we call thin-stream properties. This means
that the application sends data with such a low rate that the
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==========
More information on the modifications, as well as a wide range of
experimental data can be found here:
"Improving latency for interactive, thin-stream applications over
reliable transport"
http://simula.no/research/nd/publications/Simula.nd.477/simula_pdf_file