netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: set SK_MEM

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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 21:00:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ncardwell@...gle.com, ycheng@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: set SK_MEM_QUANTUM to 4096

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 13:32:55 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Systems with large pages (64KB pages for example) do not always have
> huge quantity of memory.
> 
> A big SK_MEM_QUANTUM value leads to fewer interactions with the
> global counters (like tcp_memory_allocated) but might trigger
> memory pressure much faster, giving suboptimal TCP performance
> since windows are lowered to ridiculous values.
> 
> Note that sysctl_mem units being in pages and in ABI, we also need
> to change sk_prot_mem_limits() accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.