From: Alice Mikityanska <alice.kernel@fastmail.im>
To: Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 4/4] selftests: net: Fix slow configurations in big_tcp_tunnels.sh
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:41:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260814194124.3102581-5-alice.kernel@fastmail.im> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260814194124.3102581-1-alice.kernel@fastmail.im>
From: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
The combination of checksum offload disabled (that causes software GSO)
and CONFIG_DEBUG_NET=y is inherently slow. Depending on the CPU power
and load, RTT may increase, limiting sk_pacing_rate, so tcp_tso_autosize
caps SKBs at around 40 segments, and zero BIG TCP packets are produced.
Increase sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_min_tso_segs and set a bigger initial value
of CWND in these configurations to force BIG TCP.
Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/net/big_tcp_tunnels.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/big_tcp_tunnels.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/big_tcp_tunnels.sh
index 1f1c811c563c..222de7c0c294 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/big_tcp_tunnels.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/big_tcp_tunnels.sh
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ setup() {
ip netns exec "$SERVER_NS" netserver >/dev/null
wait_local_port_listen "$SERVER_NS" 12865 tcp
+
+ DEFAULT_TCP_MIN_TSO_SEGS=$(ip netns exec "$CLIENT_NS" sysctl -n net.ipv4.tcp_min_tso_segs)
}
setup_tunnel() {
@@ -142,6 +144,21 @@ do_test() {
IPTABLES_SACK=ip6tables
fi
+ if [ "$3" != 'on' ] && is_debug; then
+ echo 'Slow configuration; increasing net.ipv4.tcp_min_tso_segs and initcwnd'
+ ip netns exec "$CLIENT_NS" sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_min_tso_segs=52
+ if [ "$2" = 4 ]; then
+ ip -netns "$CLIENT_NS" \
+ route change 192.168.2.0/24 dev tun0 initcwnd 100
+ else
+ ip -netns "$CLIENT_NS" -6 \
+ route change 2001:db8::2:0/112 dev tun0 initcwnd 100
+ fi
+ else
+ ip netns exec "$CLIENT_NS" \
+ sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_min_tso_segs="$DEFAULT_TCP_MIN_TSO_SEGS"
+ fi
+
ip netns exec "$SERVER_NS" "$IPTABLES" -w -t raw -I PREROUTING -i "${CAPTURE_IFACE}1" -m length ! --length 0:65535 -m comment --comment "bigtcp"
ip netns exec "$CLIENT_NS" "$IPTABLES" -w -t raw -I OUTPUT -o "${CAPTURE_IFACE}0" -m length ! --length 0:65535 -m comment --comment "bigtcp"
ip netns exec "$SERVER_NS" "$IPTABLES_SACK" -w -t raw -I OUTPUT -o "tun1" -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags ACK ACK --tcp-option 5 -m comment --comment "sack"
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-14 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-14 19:41 [PATCH net-next 0/4] Improve stability of big_tcp_tunnels.sh selftest Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-14 19:41 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] selftests: net: Wait for netserver to launch Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-14 19:41 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] selftests: net: Lower threshold on debug kernels for big_tcp_tunnels.sh Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-14 23:07 ` Matthieu Baerts
2026-08-19 17:20 ` Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-14 19:41 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] selftests: net: Lower threshold with csum offload off in big_tcp_tunnels.sh Alice Mikityanska
2026-08-14 19:41 ` Alice Mikityanska [this message]
2026-08-19 9:25 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] selftests: net: Fix slow configurations " Matthieu Baerts
2026-08-19 17:21 ` Alice Mikityanska
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