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From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Support tcp socket allocated counter in namespace.
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:53:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMDZJNXM6fXqO_Q2a7WgGtS+0YR8LRUPiE5371cf2RWu7VJgHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180228.094147.1456557446129712432.davem@davemloft.net>

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:41 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:01:52 +0800
>
>>> The amount of new conditional tests in these fast paths are not
>>> justified for this new counter which is of debatable usefullness.
>> sorry, too late for reply. Did you mean this counter will affect performance ?
>> I tested the patch witch netperf.
>
> A single flow TCP session with no loss doesn't tell us much.
>
> I just know from how these things go that under load, and with
> all kinds of different flows with different characterstics,
> every conditional test in the fast paths matter.
>
> If you want to have a chance at your change getting accepted,
> running all kinds of benchmarks won't do it.
>
> Instead, please find a way to make your feature work without all of
> the newly added tests (whilst not adding another cost at the same
> time).
Thanks for your explanation.

> Thank you.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-28 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-13  2:44 [PATCH] tcp: Support tcp socket allocated counter in namespace Tonghao Zhang
2018-02-13 17:19 ` David Miller
2018-02-28 13:01   ` Tonghao Zhang
2018-02-28 14:41     ` David Miller
2018-02-28 14:53       ` Tonghao Zhang [this message]
2018-02-28 19:19 ` Stephen Hemminger

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