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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-04-30 18:04:29 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-04-30 12:56:38 -0700
commitff159f4f1152b7012d378c69ffd253ed53227865 (patch)
treed3359dc939ba1f89e389d362745089cf17985b7f
parentd2461edde7d15121a2cd39d48cd39edbd3fa019a (diff)
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>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt)5
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
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
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