From ff159f4f1152b7012d378c69ffd253ed53227865 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:04:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 2 +- Documentation/networking/{tcp-thin.txt => tcp-thin.rst} | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) rename Documentation/networking/{tcp-thin.txt => tcp-thin.rst} (97%) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index f53d89b5679a..89b02fbfc2eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ Contents: strparser switchdev tc-actions-env-rules + tcp-thin .. only:: subproject and html diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index 38f811d4b2f0..3266aee9e052 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN 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 Default: 0 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt b/Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.rst similarity index 97% rename from Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt rename to Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.rst index 151e229980f1..b06765c96ea1 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.rst @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ +.. 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 @@ -42,6 +46,7 @@ References ========== 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