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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: "Scott M. Ferris" <sferris@acm.org>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: TSO prevents cwnd growth on 2.6 kernels
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:40:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050325104000.713229be.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050325181804.GA11633@visi.com>

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:18:04 -0600
"Scott M. Ferris" <sferris@acm.org> wrote:

> TSO still has problems in 2.6.12-rc1. 

We know it's busted.  I haven't gotten to fixing this stuff
up yet.

> tcp_write_xmit() really needs to be willing to increase
> tcp_packets_in_flight() high enough that tcp_ack() will allow the
> congestion window to grow, even when TSO is being used, otherwise
> there may be a dramatic reduction in the cwnd growth rate.

Are you suggesting to let it go past tp->snd_cwnd?  We can't
ever do that.  tp->snd_cwnd is a hard limit on the number
of frames we may have outstanding on the network at one time,
TSO or not.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-25 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-25 18:18 TSO prevents cwnd growth on 2.6 kernels Scott M. Ferris
2005-03-25 18:40 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-03-25 19:34   ` Scott M. Ferris
2005-03-25 19:40     ` David S. Miller

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