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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: roy.qing.li@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug] skb truesize does not update properly in many place
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:51:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318571517.2533.80.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318571313.2533.77.camel@edumazet-laptop>

Le vendredi 14 octobre 2011 à 07:48 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> I am now focusing in the TCP pruning effect, that we can see with WIFI
> drivers (and also with drivers using a full PAGE to store a 1500 byte
> tcp frame), when a single packet loss is happening on a session with
> large RTT.
> 

Here is what I am currently testing :

When one SKB has to be queued in out_of_order_queue,
possibly for a long time, try to reduce its truesize (by using
skb_copy_expand()) if skb->truesize is larger than
2*SKB_TRUESIZE(skb->len)

It seems to work very well, and should not happen in fast path.

Stay tuned

      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-14  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-14  5:33 [Bug] skb truesize does not update properly in many place roy.qing.li
2011-10-14  5:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-14  5:51   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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