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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Subject: Re: TCP performance regression in mac80211 triggered by the fq code
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:57:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn23ui87.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw6z53P+JCPsjYD-vaY+9vq9ZO-Ob_cXm0AE76uVcM=F9g@mail.gmail.com> (Dave Taht's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:44:05 +0200")

Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> writes:

>> As for why this would happen... There could be a bug in the dequeue code
>> somewhere, but since you get better performance from sticking everything
>> into one queue, my best guess would be that the client is choking on the
>> interleaved packets? I.e. expending more CPU when it can't stick
>> subsequent packets into the same TCP flow?
>
> I share this concern.
>
> The quantum is? I am not opposed to a larger quantum (2 full size
> packets = 3028 in this case?).

The quantum is hard-coded to 300 bytes in the current implementation
(see net/fq_impl.h).

-Toke

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-12 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-12 10:09 TCP performance regression in mac80211 triggered by the fq code Felix Fietkau
2016-07-12 12:13 ` Dave Taht
2016-07-12 13:21   ` Felix Fietkau
2016-07-12 14:02     ` Dave Taht
2016-07-13  7:57       ` Dave Taht
2016-07-13  8:53         ` Felix Fietkau
2016-07-13  9:13           ` Dave Taht
2016-07-19 13:10       ` Michal Kazior
2016-07-12 12:28 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-12 12:44   ` Dave Taht
2016-07-12 12:57     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2016-07-12 13:03       ` Dave Taht
2016-07-12 13:22     ` Felix Fietkau
2016-07-12 13:23   ` Felix Fietkau
2016-07-18 21:49   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-18 22:02     ` Dave Taht
2016-07-19 13:13 ` Michal Kazior
2016-07-19 14:32   ` Felix Fietkau
2016-07-20 14:45 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-20 15:24   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-25  5:15     ` Michal Kazior
2016-07-27 17:31       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-07-22 10:51 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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