netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] ip: re-introduce fragments cache worker

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jul 2018 04:39:55 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ip: re-introduce fragments cache worker



On 07/09/2018 04:34 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> and number of tx queues? 
> 
> You seem to self inflict losses on the sender, and that is terrible for the
> (convoluted) stress test you want to run.
> 
> I use mq + fq : no losses on the sender.
> 
> Do not send patches to solve a problem that does not exist on the field.
> 
> If some customers are using netperf and UDP_STREAM with frags, just tell them to
> use TCP instead :)
> 

Alternatively, you could try to patch fq_codel to drop all frags of one UDP datagram
instead of few of them.