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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: edumazet@google.com
Cc: ycheng@google.com, ncardwell@google.com, fw@strlen.de,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, soheil@google.com, weiwan@google.com,
	brakmo@fb.com, lorenzo@google.com, vanj@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/6] tcp: remove prequeue and header prediction
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:38:18 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170731.143818.699405961193908260.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANn89i+m4gSTevvMJMt_qOF7Q-ugqLm-jNh+2aKZDSXWR48Ouw@mail.gmail.com>

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:22:22 -0700

> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> wrote:
>> by the time these devices use 4.12 kernels they are likely powerful
>> enough to make header prediction irrelevant...
> 
> Also note that TCP stack complexity has increased a lot, I seriously
> doubt anyone could notice any difference.
> 
> On small devices, the major cost is the wakeup of the cpu to process
> one frame before going back to idle...

I agree with Yuchung and Eric on all counts.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-07-31 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-27 23:31 [RFC net-next 0/6] tcp: remove prequeue and header prediction Florian Westphal
2017-07-27 23:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 1/6] tcp: remove prequeue support Florian Westphal
2017-07-27 23:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 2/6] tcp: reindent two spots after prequeue removal Florian Westphal
2017-07-27 23:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 3/6] tcp: remove low_latency sysctl Florian Westphal
2017-07-27 23:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 4/6] tcp: remove header prediction Florian Westphal
2017-07-27 23:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 5/6] tcp: remove CA_ACK_SLOWPATH Florian Westphal
2017-07-27 23:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 6/6] tcp: remove unused mib counters Florian Westphal
2017-07-28 19:19 ` [RFC net-next 0/6] tcp: remove prequeue and header prediction Yuchung Cheng
2017-07-29 22:22 ` David Miller
2017-07-30  2:25 ` Neal Cardwell
2017-07-31 20:04   ` Yuchung Cheng
2017-07-31 20:22     ` Eric Dumazet
2017-07-31 21:38       ` David Miller [this message]

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