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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable TSO for non standard qdiscs
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:08:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080131100846.00934e25@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080131183735.GC4671@one.firstfloor.org>

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:37:35 +0100
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:01:00PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >>Fix the broken qdisc instead.
> > >
> > >What do you mean? I don't think the qdiscs are broken.
> > >I cannot think of any way how e.g. TBF can do anything useful
> > >with large TSO packets.
> > 
> > 
> > Someone posted a patch some time ago to calculate the amount
> > of tokens needed in max_size portions and use that, but IMO
> > people should just configure TBF with the proper MTU for TSO.
> 
> TBF with 64k atomic units will always be chunky and uneven. I don't
> think that's a useful goal. 
> 
> -Andi

Then change TBF to use skb_gso_segment?  Be careful, the fact that
one skb ends up queueing multiple skb's would cause issues to parent
qdisc (ie work generating qdisc).

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-31 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-31 12:46 [PATCH] Disable TSO for non standard qdiscs Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 17:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-31 18:33   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 18:01     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-31 18:37       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 18:08         ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-01-31 18:11           ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-31 18:53           ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 18:21             ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-31 19:01               ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 18:47                 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-01-31 19:34                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 19:39                     ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-01-31 23:10                       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-01-31 23:42                         ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-02-01  4:26                           ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-01  4:35                           ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-01  4:36                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 20:33                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-31 23:04                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-01  7:42                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-01  9:28                           ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-02-01 21:47                             ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-01  5:01                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-01  6:35                     ` Glen Turner
2008-02-01  6:46                       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-01  7:46                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-01  7:25                         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-01  9:37                           ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-02-01  9:56                             ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-01 12:06                               ` jamal
2008-02-01 19:02                                 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-02-01 22:56                                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-02  1:51                                   ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-02-02  5:20                                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 14:34                             ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 17:24                               ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-31 18:48                 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-02 22:57             ` Herbert Xu
2008-02-03  9:35               ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 18:26 ` Rick Jones
2008-01-31 19:03   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 18:35     ` Rick Jones
2008-01-31 19:25       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 19:14         ` Rick Jones
2008-02-01  1:04           ` Andy Furniss
2008-02-01  4:31           ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-02 22:59             ` Herbert Xu
2008-02-01 21:58     ` Rick Jones
2008-02-02  4:10       ` Andi Kleen

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