1. 25 Apr, 2016 39 commits
  2. 24 Apr, 2016 1 commit
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      tcp-tso: do not split TSO packets at retransmit time · 10d3be56
      Eric Dumazet authored
      Linux TCP stack painfully segments all TSO/GSO packets before retransmits.
      
      This was fine back in the days when TSO/GSO were emerging, with their
      bugs, but we believe the dark age is over.
      
      Keeping big packets in write queues, but also in stack traversal
      has a lot of benefits.
       - Less memory overhead, because write queues have less skbs
       - Less cpu overhead at ACK processing.
       - Better SACK processing, as lot of studies mentioned how
         awful linux was at this ;)
       - Less cpu overhead to send the rtx packets
         (IP stack traversal, netfilter traversal, drivers...)
       - Better latencies in presence of losses.
       - Smaller spikes in fq like packet schedulers, as retransmits
         are not constrained by TCP Small Queues.
      
      1 % packet losses are common today, and at 100Gbit speeds, this
      translates to ~80,000 losses per second.
      Losses are often correlated, and we see many retransmit events
      leading to 1-MSS train of packets, at the time hosts are already
      under stress.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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