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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 net-next 2/2] tcp: Add Redundant Data Bundling
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:43:22 -0800
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On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 17:26 +0100, Bendik R=C3=B8nning Opstad wrote:

> +
> +tcp_rdb_max_skbs - INTEGER
> +	Enable restriction on how many previous SKBs in the output queue
> +	RDB may include data from. A value of 1 will restrict bundling to
> +	only the data from the last packet that was sent.
> +	Default: 1
> +

skb is an internal thing. I would rather not expose a sysctl with such
name.

Can be multi segment or not (if GSO/TSO is enabled)

So even '1' skb can have very different content, from 1 byte to ~64 KB