netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: novickivan@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	jmatthews@greenplum.com, theath@greenplum.com,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: TCP not triggering a fast retransmit?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:22:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100630.142256.77345240.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277931829.4878.9.camel@localhost>

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:03:49 +0100

> In that packet capture I see TCP payload lengths which are 2, 3 and 4
> times the usual MSS of 1448 bytes, which implies that GRO or LRO is in
> use.  In RHEL 5.4 the TCP stack does not ACK often enough in this case
> because it is missing this change:
> 
> commit ff9b5e0f08cb650d113eef0c654f931c0a7ae730
> Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Date:   Thu Aug 31 15:11:02 2006 -0700
> 
>     [TCP]: Fix rcv mss estimate for LRO

It certainly could be, I'll try make sure this gets rectified,
thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-30 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-30 18:04 TCP not triggering a fast retransmit? Ivan Novick
2010-06-30 19:26 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-06-30 20:06 ` Mitchell Erblich
2010-06-30 20:14   ` Ivan Novick
2010-06-30 20:43     ` Mitchell Erblich
2010-06-30 21:03 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-06-30 21:22   ` David Miller [this message]
2010-06-30 23:10     ` Mitchell Erblich
2010-07-01  0:27   ` Ivan Novick
2010-07-01  1:23     ` Ben Hutchings

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100630.142256.77345240.davem@davemloft.net \
    --to=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=bhutchings@solarflare.com \
    --cc=herbert@gondor.apana.org.au \
    --cc=jmatthews@greenplum.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=novickivan@gmail.com \
    --cc=theath@greenplum.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).