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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:21:30 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>, Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Nagle latency tuning
Em Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:54:31PM -0400, Chuck Lever escreveu:
> On Sep 9, 2008, at Sep 9, 2008, 12:33 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
>>> Most of the apps where people care about this enough to complain to
>>> their vendor (the cases I hear about) are in messaging apps, where
>>> they're relaying a stream of events that have little to do with each
>>> other, and they want TCP to maintain the integrity of the connection
>>> and do a modicum of bandwidth management, but 40 ms stalls greatly
>>> exceed their latency tolerances.
>>
>> What _are_ their latency tolerances? How often are they willing to
>> tolerate a modicum of TCP bandwidth management? Do they go ape when
>> TCP sits waiting not just for 40ms, but for an entire RTO timer?
>>
>>> Using TCP_NODELAY is often the least bad option, but sometimes it's
>>> infeasible because of its effect on the network, and it certainly
>>> adds to the network stack overhead. A more tunable Nagle delay would
>>> probably serve many of these apps much better.
>>
>> If the applications are sending streams of logically unrelated sends
>> down the same socket, then setting TCP_NODELAY is IMO fine. Where it
>> isn't fine is where these applications are generating their logically
>> associated data in two or more small sends. One send per message good.
>> Two sends per message bad.
>
> Can the same be said of the Linux kernel's RPC client, which uses
> MSG_MORE and multiple sends to construct a single RPC request on a TCP
> socket?
>
> See net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c:xs_send_pagedata() for details.
That is not a problem, it should be equivalent to corking the socket.
I.e. the uncorking operation will be the last part of the buffer, where
'more' will be 0.
- Arnaldo
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