netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2 net-next] tcp: sk_add_backlog() is too agressive for TCP

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Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:10:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, rick.jones2@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	therbert@...gle.com, ncardwell@...gle.com, maze@...gle.com,
	ycheng@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 net-next] tcp: sk_add_backlog() is too agressive
 for TCP

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:01:37 +0300 (EEST)

> Why not, but wouldn't it be nicer to coalesce them already in GRO below 
> with an assumption that GRO is likely to find some "mss" equivivalent 
> which tells the gap between consecutive ACK (or even SACK) seqnos?

GRO must be able to precisely reproduce the input stream if the packet
is forwarded and therefore we end up resegmenting on output with GSO.
That makes this a non-starter since we must therefore remember all of
the SACK boundaries in the original packets.
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