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From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: TSO trimming question
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:02:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <476A920D.6020401@psc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071220.035621.147230372.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:40:51 +0200 (EET)
> 
>> [PATCH] [TCP]: Fix TSO deferring
>>
>> I'd say that most of what tcp_tso_should_defer had in between
>> there was dead code because of this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
> 
> Yikes!!!!!
> 
> John, we've been living a lie for more than a year. :-/
> 
> On the bright side this explains a lot of small TSO frames I've been
> seeing in traces over the past year but never got a chance to
> investigate.

Ouch.  This fix may improve some benchmarks.

Re-checking this function was on my list of things to do because I had 
also noticed some TSO frames that seemed a bit small.  This clearly 
explains it.

   -John

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-20 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-19 21:46 TSO trimming question Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-19 22:02 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-20  3:26   ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-20  7:55     ` David Miller
2007-12-20  7:54 ` David Miller
2007-12-20 11:40   ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-20 11:56     ` David Miller
2007-12-20 16:02       ` John Heffner [this message]
2007-12-21  4:36         ` David Miller
2007-12-21  8:06       ` Bill Fink
2007-12-21  9:26         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-21  9:28           ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-21  9:27         ` David Miller
2007-12-21  9:29           ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-21  9:36             ` David Miller
2007-12-21 10:58               ` Bill Fink
2007-12-21 18:54                 ` Bill Fink
2007-12-21 18:58                   ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-21 19:37                     ` Bill Fink
2007-12-20 12:00     ` David Miller
2007-12-20 12:35       ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-20 14:00       ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-20 23:55         ` David Miller
2007-12-21 18:55           ` [PATCH] [TCP]: Force TSO splits to MSS boundaries Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-21 20:01             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-25  5:35             ` David Miller

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