From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/5] tcp: add 4 new stats Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20180801.095630.2185828024414600638.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20180801004624.154346-1-tracywwnj@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, ncardwell@google.com, soheil@google.com, ycheng@google.com To: weiwan@google.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.9]:49986 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2405389AbeHATWM (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2018 15:22:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20180801004624.154346-1-tracywwnj@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Wei Wang Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:46:19 -0700 > From: Wei Wang > > This patch series adds 3 RFC4898 stats: > 1. tcpEStatsPerfHCDataOctetsOut > 2. tcpEStatsPerfOctetsRetrans > 3. tcpEStatsStackDSACKDups > and an addtional stat to record the number of data packet reordering > events seen: > 4. tcp_reord_seen > > Together with the existing stats, application can use them to measure > the retransmission rate in bytes, exclude spurious retransmissions > reflected by DSACK, and keep track of the reordering events on live > connections. > In particular the networks with different MTUs make bytes-based loss stats > more useful. Google servers have been using these stats for many years to > instrument transport and network performance. > > Note: The first patch is a refactor to add a helper to calculate > opt_stats size in order to make later changes cleaner. Series applied, thank you.