From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tore@fud.no
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: disable GSO on sockets hitting dst_allfrag
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 04:03:13 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120519.040313.1890452580451494013.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337413904.7029.93.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 09:51:44 +0200
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>
> If the allfrag feature has been set on a host route (due to an ICMPv6
> Packet Too Big received indicating a MTU of less than 1280), we hit a
> very slow behavior in TCP stack, because all big packets are dropped and
> only a retransmit timer is able to push one MSS frame every 200 ms.
>
> One way to handle this is to disable GSO on the socket the first time a
> super packet is dropped. Adding a specific dst_allfrag() in the fast
> path is probably overkill since the dst_allfrag() case almost never
> happen.
>
> Result on netperf TCP_STREAM, one flow :
>
> Before : 60 kbit/sec
> After : 1.6 Gbit/sec
>
> Reported-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Tested-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Applied.
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2012-05-19 7:51 [PATCH net-next] ipv6: disable GSO on sockets hitting dst_allfrag Eric Dumazet
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