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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] xfrm: Remove ancient sleeping code
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:21:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131011092145.GT7660@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5257A650.4090408@windriver.com>

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 03:18:40PM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
> >>In xfrm policy queue, XFRM_MAX_QUEUE_LEN is 100, which means 101th skb
> >>will be dropped, how about make it configurable?
> >
> >IMO we would have yet another useless knob then. Currently we send all
> >packets by default to a blackhole as long as the state is not resolved
> >and most people are fine with it. The queueing is mostly to speed up
> >tcp handshakes,
> 
> I cannot follow on this part. Would you please mind to explain how making a
> policy queue will speed up TCP handshakes than orignal CAN_SLEEP mechanism?
> 

I have not said that queueing is any faster than the sleeping mechanism.
But it is faster than the current default that simply sends the first
packets to a blackhole and can be used regardless if we can sleep.

All I wanted to say is that there are not many packets needed to establish
tcp connections, so I think a 100 packets queue is sufficient.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-11  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-10  6:33 [PATCH RFC 0/2] xfrm: Remove ancient sleeping code Steffen Klassert
2013-10-10  6:33 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] xfrm: Remove ancient sleeping when the SA is in acquire state Steffen Klassert
2013-10-10  6:34 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] net: Remove FLOWI_FLAG_CAN_SLEEP Steffen Klassert
2013-10-10  7:02 ` [PATCH RFC 0/2] xfrm: Remove ancient sleeping code Fan Du
2013-10-10  8:57   ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-11  7:18     ` Fan Du
2013-10-11  9:21       ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2013-10-11 19:01 ` David Miller
2013-10-15  7:30   ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-15 23:14     ` David Miller
2013-10-15 23:58     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-16  9:45       ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-16 11:42         ` [PATCH RFC] xfrm: Don't queue retransmitted packets if the original is still on the host Steffen Klassert
2013-10-18 20:19           ` David Miller
2013-10-18 20:23             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-18 20:34               ` David Miller
2013-10-21 14:51                 ` Steffen Klassert

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