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Re: Throughput regression with `tcp: refine TSO autosizing`

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On 6 February 2015 at 14:53, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 05:40 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>> tcp_wfree() could maintain in tp->tx_completion_delay_ms an EWMA
>> of TX completion delay. But this would require yet another expensive
>> call to ktime_get() if HZ < 1000.
>>
>> Then tcp_write_xmit() could use it to adjust :
>>
>>    limit = max(2 * skb->truesize, sk->sk_pacing_rate >> 9);
>>
>> to
>>
>>    amount = (2 + tp->tx_completion_delay_ms) * sk->sk_pacing_rate
>>
>>    limit = max(2 * skb->truesize, amount / 1000);
>>
>> I'll cook a patch.
>
> Hmm... doing this in all protocols would be too expensive,
> and we do not want to include time spent in qdiscs.
>
> wifi could eventually do that, providing in skb->tx_completion_delay_us
> the time spent in wifi driver.
>
> This way, we would have no penalty for network devices doing normal skb
> orphaning (loopback interface, ethernet, ...)

I'll play around with this idea and report back later.


Michał
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