netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tcp_bbr: better deal with suboptimal GSO

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Date:   Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:16:47 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     oleksandr@...alenko.name, edumazet@...gle.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, soheil@...gle.com, ncardwell@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp_bbr: better deal with suboptimal GSO

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:43:03 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> BBR uses tcp_tso_autosize() in an attempt to probe what would be the
> burst sizes and to adjust cwnd in bbr_target_cwnd() with following
> gold formula :
> 
> /* Allow enough full-sized skbs in flight to utilize end systems. */
> cwnd += 3 * bbr->tso_segs_goal;
> 
> But GSO can be lacking or be constrained to very small
> units (ip link set dev ... gso_max_segs 2)
> 
> What we really want is to have enough packets in flight so that both
> GSO and GRO are efficient.
> 
> So in the case GSO is off or downgraded, we still want to have the same
> number of packets in flight as if GSO/TSO was fully operational, so
> that GRO can hopefully be working efficiently.
> 
> To fix this issue, we make tcp_tso_autosize() unaware of
> sk->sk_gso_max_segs
> 
> Only tcp_tso_segs() has to enforce the gso_max_segs limit.
 . ..
> Fixes: 0f8782ea1497 ("tcp_bbr: add BBR congestion control")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>


Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Eric.