netdev - Re: [PATCH] sctp: Reducing rwnd by sizeof(struct sk

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Date:	Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:42:51 -0400
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...radead.org>
To:	Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
Cc:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: Reducing rwnd by sizeof(struct sk_buff) for each
 CHUNK is too aggressive

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:48:51AM -0400, Vladislav Yasevich wrote:
> I believe there was work in progress to change how window is computed.  The issue with
> your current patch is that it is possible to consume all of the receive buffer space while
> still having an open receive window.  We've seen it in real life which is why the above band-aid
> was applied.

I don't understand this. The rwnd _announced_ is sk_rcvbuf/2 so we are
reserving half of sk_rcvbuf for structures like sk_buff. This means we
can use _all_ of rwnd for data. If the peer announces a a_rwnd of 1500
in the last SACK I expect that peer to be able to handle 1500 bytes of
data.

Regardless of that, why would we reserve a sk_buff for each chunk? We only
allocate an skb per packet which can have many chunks attached.

To me, this looks like a fix for broken sctp peers.

> The correct patch should really something similar to TCP, where receive window is computed as
> a percentage of the available receive buffer space at every adjustment.  This should also take into
> account SWS on the sender side.

Can you elaborate this a little more? You want our view of the peer's receive
window to be computed as a percentage of the available receive buffer on our
side?
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