Re: [PATCH net v2 0/2] net/smc: Fix effective buffer size

Simon Horman
2023-08-04T14:17:13Z

On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 04:46:03PM +0200, Gerd Bayer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> commit 0227f058aa29 ("net/smc: Unbind r/w buffer size from clcsock
> and make them tunable") started to derive the effective buffer size for
> SMC connections inconsistently in case a TCP fallback was used and
> memory consumption of SMC with the default settings was doubled when
> a connection negotiated SMC. That was not what we want.
>
> This series consolidates the resulting effective buffer size that is
> used with SMC sockets, which is based on Jan Karcher's effort (see
> [1]). For all TCP exchanges (in particular in case of a fall back when
> no SMC connection was possible) the values from net.ipv4.tcp_[rw]mem
> are used. If SMC succeeds in establishing a SMC connection, the newly
> introduced values from net.smc.[rw]mem are used.
>
> net.smc.[rw]mem is initialized to 64kB, respectively. Internal test
> have show this to be a good compromise between throughput/latency
> and memory consumption. Also net.smc.[rw]mem is now decoupled completely
> from any tuning through net.ipv4.tcp_[rw]mem.
>
> If a user chose to tune a socket's receive or send buffer size with
> setsockopt, this tuning is now consistently applied to either fall-back
> TCP or proper SMC connections over the socket.
>
> Thanks,
> Gerd
>
> v1 - v2:
> - In second patch, use sock_net() helper as suggested by Tony and demanded
> by kernel test robot.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20221123104907.14624-1-jaka@linux.ibm.com

Hi Gerd,

unfortunately this patchset does not appear to apply to current 'net'.

Could you rebase and send a v3?

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