Hello! > The performance drops are probably caused by packet reordering. Extensive > packet reordering causes TCP to detect congestion and causes extensive > retransmits and lower congestion windows. Linux 2.4.0test7-preLATEST has some > sender side improvements to handle reordering in the network better (and > some receiver side hacks that may or more likely may not work) No, it does not anything at receiver side to fight this. Enough clever sender side is enough to reduce bad effect of reordering to zero. The only thing required from receiver is to adevrtise window larger than reordering. Alexey - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
