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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ycheng@google.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 net-next] tcp: reducing lost retransmits in recovery
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:30:03 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150708.133003.612921512265899727.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435785075-20600-1-git-send-email-ycheng@google.com>

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Date: Wed,  1 Jul 2015 14:11:13 -0700

> This patch series reduces lost retransmits in recovery, in particular
> when dealing with traffic policers. The main problem is that
> slow start in recovery under policing can cause massive lost and
> retransmit storms: any excess sending rate turns into drops. The
> solution is to avoid doing slow start when lost retransmit is
> detected and use packet conservation instead.
> 
> On networks with traffic policers the patches have lowered the
> TCP loss rates by ~20% from Google servers without latency regressions.

Looks great, series applied to net-next.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-08 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-01 21:11 [PATCH 0/2 net-next] tcp: reducing lost retransmits in recovery Yuchung Cheng
2015-07-01 21:11 ` [PATCH 1/2 net-next] tcp: reduce cwnd if retransmit is lost in CA_Loss Yuchung Cheng
2015-07-01 21:11 ` [PATCH 2/2 net-next] tcp: PRR uses CRB mode by default and SS mode conditionally Yuchung Cheng
2015-07-08 20:30 ` David Miller [this message]

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