netdev - Re: [PATCH] neigh: replace unres_qlen by unres_qlen

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Date:	Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:05:42 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] neigh: replace unres_qlen by unres_qlen_bytes

On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:14:16 +0100
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> [PATCH V2 net-next] neigh: replace unres_qlen by unres_qlen_bytes
> 
> unres_qlen is the number of frames we are able to queue per unresolved
> neighbour. Its default value (3) was never changed and is responsible
> for strange drops, especially if IP fragments are used, or multiple
> sessions start in parallel. TCP initial congestion window is now bigger
> than 3.

I don't understand this argument.
TCP won't send data until the initial SYN is acked. And the SYN can't
be sent until the ARP is resolved.

The only use case for this is for applications that open lots of connections
to the same destination as once (a.k.a TCP accelerators) to get around
TCP slow start.
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