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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rdreier@cisco.com, rick.jones2@hp.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: TSO and IPoIB performance degradation
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:22:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060320102234.GV29929@mellanox.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060320.015500.72136710.davem@davemloft.net>

Quoting r. David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>:
> The path an SKB can take is opaque and unknown until the very last
> moment it is actually given to the device transmit function.

Why, I was proposing looking at dst cache. If that's NULL, well,
we won't stretch ACKs. Worst case we apply the wrong optimization.
Right?

> People need to get the "special case this topology" ideas out of their
> heads. :-)

Okay, I get that.

What I'd like to clarify, however: rfc2581 explicitly states that in some cases
it might be OK to generate ACKs less frequently than every second full-sized
segment. Given Matt's measurements, TCP on top of IP over InfiniBand on Linux
seems to hit one of these cases.  Do you agree to that?

-- 
Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-20 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-06 22:34 TSO and IPoIB performance degradation Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-06 22:40 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-06 22:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-03-07  3:13   ` Shirley Ma
2006-03-07 21:44     ` Matt Leininger
2006-03-07 21:49       ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-03-07 21:53         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-08  0:11         ` Matt Leininger
2006-03-08  0:18           ` David S. Miller
2006-03-08  1:17             ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-08  1:23               ` David S. Miller
2006-03-08  1:34                 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-08 12:53                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-08 20:53                   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-09 23:48                   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-10  0:10                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-10  0:38                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-10  7:18                       ` David S. Miller
2006-03-10  0:21                     ` Rick Jones
2006-03-10  7:23                       ` David S. Miller
2006-03-10 17:44                         ` Rick Jones
2006-03-20  9:06                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-20  9:55                           ` David S. Miller
2006-03-20 10:22                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2006-03-20 10:37                               ` David S. Miller
2006-03-20 11:27                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-20 11:47                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-20 11:49                                     ` Lennert Buytenhek
2006-03-20 11:53                                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-20 13:35                                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-20 12:04                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-20 15:09                                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-20 18:58                                           ` Rick Jones
2006-03-20 23:00                                           ` David S. Miller
2006-04-27  4:13                                 ` Troy Benjegerdes

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