What does "wscale" in "ss" output mean?

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Issue

  • What does the "wscale" notation in "ss" output mean? eg:
cubic wscale:7,6 rto:201 rtt:1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • TCP networking
  • ss tool from iproute package

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