netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] tcp-tso: do not split TSO packets at retransmit time

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Date:	Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:44:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ncardwell@...gle.com, ycheng@...gle.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] tcp-tso: do not split TSO packets at
 retransmit time

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:55:23 -0700

> Linux TCP stack painfully segments all TSO/GSO packets before retransmits.
> 
> This was fine back in the days when TSO/GSO were emerging, with their
> bugs, but we believe the dark age is over.
> 
> Keeping big packets in write queues, but also in stack traversal
> has a lot of benefits.
>  - Less memory overhead, because write queues have less skbs
>  - Less cpu overhead at ACK processing.
>  - Better SACK processing, as lot of studies mentioned how
>    awful linux was at this ;)
>  - Less cpu overhead to send the rtx packets
>    (IP stack traversal, netfilter traversal, drivers...)
>  - Better latencies in presence of losses.
>  - Smaller spikes in fq like packet schedulers, as retransmits
>    are not constrained by TCP Small Queues.
> 
> 1 % packet losses are common today, and at 100Gbit speeds, this
> translates to ~80,000 losses per second.
> Losses are often correlated, and we see many retransmit events
> leading to 1-MSS train of packets, at the time hosts are already
> under stress.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.