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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 19:25:05 +0100 From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas.nussbaum@...ia.fr> To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> Cc: Injong Rhee <rhee@...u.edu>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, sangtae.ha@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make CUBIC Hystart more robust to RTT variations On 09/03/11 at 09:56 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 07:53:19 +0100 > Lucas Nussbaum <lucas.nussbaum@...ia.fr> wrote: > > > On 08/03/11 at 20:30 -0500, Injong Rhee wrote: > > > Now, both tools can be wrong. But that is not catastrophic since > > > congestion avoidance can kick in to save the day. In a pipe where no > > > other flows are competing, then exiting slow start too early can > > > slow things down as the window can be still too small. But that is > > > in fact when delays are most reliable. So those tests that say bad > > > performance with hystart are in fact, where hystart is supposed to > > > perform well. > > > > Hi, > > > > In my setup, there is no congestion at all (except the buffer bloat). > > Without Hystart, transferring 8 Gb of data takes 9s, with CUBIC exiting > > slow start at ~2000 packets. > > With Hystart, transferring 8 Gb of data takes 19s, with CUBIC exiting > > slow start at ~20 packets. > > I don't think that this is "hystart performing well". We could just as > > well remove slow start completely, and only do congestion avoidance, > > then. > > > > While I see the value in Hystart, it's clear that there are some flaws > > in the current implementation. It probably makes sense to disable > > hystart by default until those problems are fixed. > > What is the speed and RTT time of your network? > I think you maybe blaming hystart for other issues in the network. What kind of issues? Host1 is connected through a gigabit ethernet LAN to Router1 Host2 is connected through a gigabit ethernet LAN to Router2 Router1 and Router2 are connected through an experimentation network at 10 Gb/s RTT between Host1 and Host2 is 11.3ms. The network is not congested. (I can provide access to the testbed if someone wants to do further testing) -- | Lucas Nussbaum MCF Université Nancy 2 | | lucas.nussbaum@...ia.fr LORIA / AlGorille | | http://www.loria.fr/~lnussbau/ +33 3 54 95 86 19 | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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