Re: [patch 13/20] timer: Switch to a non cascading wheel

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Original TCP RFCs tell timeout is infinite ;)
>>
>> Practically, conntrack has a 5 days timeout, but I really doubt anyone
>> expects an idle TCP flow to stay 'alive' when nothing is sent for 5
>> days.
>
> So would 37hrs ~= 1.5 days be a reasonable cutoff or will stuff fall apart and
> people be surprised?
>

It seems very reasonable to me at least.