netdev - Re: [PATCH 06/10] tcp: Try to restore large SKBs while SACK processing

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Message-Id: <20081124.212046.118565466.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:20:46 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] tcp: Try to restore large SKBs while SACK
 processing

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:22:03 +0200

> During SACK processing, most of the benefits of TSO are eaten by
> the SACK blocks that one-by-one fragment SKBs to MSS sized chunks.
> Then we're in problems when cleanup work for them has to be done
> when a large cumulative ACK comes. Try to return back to pre-split
> state already while more and more SACK info gets discovered by
> combining newly discovered SACK areas with the previous skb if
> that's SACKed as well.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Really nice work, patch applied, thanks!
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