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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jheffner@psc.edu, ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi,
	lachlan.andrew@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	quetchen@caltech.edu
Subject: Re: SACK scoreboard
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:25:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73sl17pwfy.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080108.144456.173014334.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Tue\, 08 Jan 2008 14\:44\:56 -0800 \(PST\)")

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
>
> The big problem is that recovery from even a single packet loss in a
> window makes us run kfree_skb() for a all the packets in a full
> window's worth of data when recovery completes.

Why exactly is it a problem to free them all at once? Are you worried
about kernel preemption latencies?

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-09  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <aa7d2c6d0711261023m3d2dd850o76a8f44aef022f39@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <001001c83063$9adbc9d0$d5897e82@csp.uiuc.edu>
2007-11-28 23:47   ` [PATCH] tcp-illinois: incorrect beta usage Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-29  0:25     ` Lachlan Andrew
2007-11-29  0:43       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-29  5:26         ` Shao Liu
2007-12-03 22:52           ` [RFC] TCP illinois max rtt aging Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-03 23:06             ` Lachlan Andrew
2007-12-03 23:59               ` Shao Liu
2007-12-04  0:32                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-04  1:23                   ` Lachlan Andrew
2007-12-04  8:37                     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-07  3:27                       ` Lachlan Andrew
2007-12-07 11:05                         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-07 12:41                           ` David Miller
2007-12-07 13:05                             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-07 18:27                               ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-08  1:32                               ` David Miller
2007-12-11 11:59                                 ` [RFC PATCH net-2.6.25 uncompilable] [TCP]: Avoid breaking GSOed skbs when SACKed one-by-one (Was: Re: [RFC] TCP illinois max rtt aging) Ilpo Järvinen
2007-12-11 12:32                                   ` [RFC PATCH net-2.6.25 uncompilable] [TCP]: Avoid breaking GSOed skbs when SACKed one-by-one David Miller
2007-12-12  0:14                                     ` Lachlan Andrew
2007-12-12 15:11                                       ` David Miller
2007-12-12 23:35                                         ` Lachlan Andrew
2007-12-12 23:38                                           ` David Miller
2007-12-13  0:00                                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-15  9:51                                     ` SACK scoreboard (Was: Re: [RFC PATCH net-2.6.25 uncompilable] [TCP]: Avoid breaking GSOed skbs when SACKed one-by-one) Ilpo Järvinen
2008-01-08  7:36                                       ` SACK scoreboard David Miller
2008-01-08 12:12                                         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-01-09  7:58                                           ` David Miller
2008-01-08 16:51                                         ` John Heffner
2008-01-08 22:44                                           ` David Miller
2008-01-09  1:34                                             ` Lachlan Andrew
2008-01-09  6:35                                               ` David Miller
2008-01-09  2:25                                             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-01-09  4:27                                               ` John Heffner
2008-01-09  6:41                                                 ` David Miller
2008-01-09 14:56                                                   ` John Heffner
2008-01-09 18:14                                                     ` SANGTAE HA
2008-01-09 18:23                                                       ` John Heffner
2008-01-09 12:55                                                 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-01-09  6:39                                               ` David Miller
2008-01-09  7:03                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-09  7:16                                                   ` David Miller
2008-01-09  9:47                                                   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-01-09 14:02                                                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-29 14:12     ` [PATCH] tcp-illinois: incorrect beta usage Herbert Xu
2008-01-09  6:04 SACK scoreboard linux

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