From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: net_sched: precision problem of TBF/HTB
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:50:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1373950201.10804.103.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E4C815.9000408@huawei.com>
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 12:12 +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> Hi, Eric
> Commit 1def9238d4aa2 (net_sched: more precise pkt_len computation)
> makes more precise transfer bytes by taking account of headers in
> qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_len, but this introduces a problem with
> calculating bandwidth in userland.
>
This changed nothing to userland.
> When calculating bandwidth in userland, it's not include headers'
> bytes. From the user's perspective, it's not a correct bandwidth.
>
> Shall we need take account of headers in qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_len or
> just skb->len?
>
These values are not accessible from userland, unless you capture
packets with a sniffer (tcpdump or something like that)
> Example:
> tc qdisc add dev $DEV root handle 1: tbf latency 50ms burst 500kB rate
> 500mbit mtu 64k
>
> iperf -c host -t 30 -i 10
> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
> [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 571 MBytes 479 Mbits/sec
> [ 3] 10.0-20.0 sec 570 MBytes 478 Mbits/sec
> [ 3] 20.0-30.0 sec 570 MBytes 478 Mbits/sec
> [ 3] 0.0-30.0 sec 1.67 GBytes 478 Mbits/sec
iperf only measures the amount of payload, and probably do not care of
headers.
You cannot accurately measure bandwidth from userland, unless making
assumptions (or getting them from the stack) on header sizes (IP + TCP),
MSS value, and retransmits.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-16 4:12 net_sched: precision problem of TBF/HTB Yang Yingliang
2013-07-16 4:50 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-07-17 1:41 ` Ding Tianhong
2013-07-17 3:18 ` John Fastabend
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