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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	eyalpe@dev.mellanox.co.il
Subject: Re: Throughput regression with `tcp: refine TSO autosizing`
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:25:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54CFEB46.3050006@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422903136.21689.114.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 02/02/2015 10:52 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 11:27 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote:
> 
>> While testing I've had my internal GRO patch for ath10k and no stretch
>> ack patches.
> 
> Thanks for the data, I took a look at it.
> 
> I am afraid this GRO patch might be the problem.
> 
> It seems to break ACK clocking badly (linux stack has a somewhat buggy
> tcp_tso_should_defer(), which relies on ACK being received smoothly, as
> no timer is setup to split the TSO packet.)

It is a big throughput win to have fewer TCP ack packets on
wireless since it is a half-duplex environment.  Is there anything
we could improve so that we can have fewer acks and still get
good tcp stack behaviour?

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-02 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-29 11:48 Throughput regression with `tcp: refine TSO autosizing` Michal Kazior
2015-01-29 13:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-01-30 10:29   ` Arend van Spriel
2015-01-30 13:19     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-01-30 13:47       ` Arend van Spriel
2015-01-30 14:37         ` Eric Dumazet
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2015-02-02  4:04                           ` [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: " Avery Pennarun
2015-02-02 15:25                             ` Jim Gettys
2015-02-02  4:21                         ` Avery Pennarun
2015-02-02  7:07                           ` David Lang
2015-01-30 13:39   ` Michal Kazior
2015-01-30 14:40     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-02 10:27       ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-02 18:52         ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-02 21:25           ` Ben Greear [this message]
2015-02-02 23:06             ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-03  9:00               ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-03  1:18           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-03 11:50             ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-03 14:27               ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-03 15:03                 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-04 11:35                 ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-04 11:57                   ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-04 12:22                     ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-04 12:38                       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-04 12:53                         ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-04 12:55                           ` Johannes Berg
2015-02-04 13:16                           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-04 13:29                             ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-04 21:11                               ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-05  6:46                                 ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-05 13:03                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-05  8:38                                 ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-05 12:57                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-05 13:19                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-05 13:33                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-05 13:44                                       ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-05 14:41                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-05 17:10                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-06  9:42                                             ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-06 13:40                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-06 13:53                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-06 14:09                                                   ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-09 13:47                                                     ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-09 15:11                                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-10 10:33                                                         ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-10 12:54                                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-10 13:05                                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-10 13:14                                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-11  8:33                                                             ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-11 13:17                                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-12  7:16                                                                 ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-10 14:19                                                           ` Johannes Berg
2015-02-10 15:09                                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-11  8:57                                                             ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-12  7:48                                                               ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-12  8:33                                                                 ` Dave Taht
2015-02-24 10:24                                                                 ` Johannes Berg
2015-02-24 10:30                                                                   ` Johannes Berg
2015-02-24 10:59                                                                     ` Johannes Berg
2015-03-31 11:08                                                         ` Johannes Berg
2015-02-06 14:10                                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-06 14:31                                                     ` David Laight
2015-02-06 15:02                                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-06 14:08                                                 ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-06 14:35                                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-06 17:48                                                     ` Rick Jones
2015-02-05 14:48                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-06  9:39                                           ` Nicolas Cavallari
2015-02-05 19:50                                         ` Dave Taht
2015-02-06  9:57                                           ` Michal Kazior
2015-02-03  8:44           ` Michal Kazior

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