linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tcp: disable auto corking by default

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Date:	Sat, 8 Feb 2014 18:20:23 +0100
From:	Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@...nzmann.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>,
	target-devel <target-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: disable auto corking by default

Hello Eric,

> Sure, but if we put this flag to zero, nobody will ever use it and
> find any bug.

I agree.

> If we can add the MSG_MORE at the right place, your workload might gain
> ~20% exec time, and maybe 30% better efficiency, since you'll divide by
> 2 the total number of network segments.

That is in fact promising.

> Just to be clear: No stable kernel has yet any issue, right?

Not with TCP CORK as it was recently introduced in the development
branch but it will become stable at one point.

Cheers,
        Thomas
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