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From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rdreier@cisco.com, rick.jones2@hp.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: TSO and IPoIB performance degradation
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:49:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060320114933.GA3058@xi.wantstofly.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142855223.3114.30.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:47:03PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > > I disagree with Linux changing it's behavior.  It would be great to
> > > turn off congestion control completely over local gigabit networks,
> > > but that isn't determinable in any way, so we don't do that.
> > 
> > Interesting. Would it make sense to make it another tunable knob in
> > /proc, sysfs or sysctl then?
> 
> that's not the right level; since that is per interface. And you only
> know the actual interface waay too late (as per earlier posts).
> Per socket.. maybe
> But then again it's not impossible to have packets for one socket go out
> to multiple interfaces
> (think load balancing bonding over 2 interfaces, one IB another
> ethernet)

I read it as if he was proposing to have a sysctl knob to turn off
TCP congestion control completely (which has so many issues it's not
even funny.)

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-20 11:49 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
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 [this message]
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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