Re: [PATCH] [RFC] tcp: TSQ - do not always throttle.

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 17:33 +0530, Krishna Kumar wrote:
> Do not throttle if sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes==0.
> 
> Maybe it is better to throttle earlier in the loop, after
> calling tcp_init_tso_segs().
> 

I wonder why, and why you put this question in a changelog instead of
outside of it...

Idea was to avoid setting TSQ_THROTTLED if we break out the loop.


About disabling TSQ, my initial intent was to instead use a negative
sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes value.

Thats why I have in tcp_transmit_skb() :

skb->destructor = (sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes > 0) ?
		  tcp_wfree : sock_wfree;

So I suggest you change the tcp_write_xmit(() test to a single unsigned
compare :

if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc) >=
    (unsigned) sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes) {

Also use :

skb->destructor = (sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes >= 0) ?
  tcp_wfree : sock_wfree;

and document the 'negative value disables TSQ' in
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt