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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:46:53 +0200 From: Arnd Hannemann <arnd@...dnet.de> To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> CC: Alexander Zimmermann <alexander.zimmermann@...sys.rwth-aachen.de>, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>, Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Lukowski Damian <damian@....rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: bound RTO to minimum Hi, Am 25.08.2011 10:26, schrieb Eric Dumazet: > Le jeudi 25 août 2011 à 09:28 +0200, Alexander Zimmermann a écrit : >> Hi Eric, >> >> Am 25.08.2011 um 07:28 schrieb Eric Dumazet: > >>> Real question is : do we really want to process ~1000 timer interrupts >>> per tcp session, ~2000 skb alloc/free/build/handling, possibly ~1000 ARP >>> requests, only to make tcp revover in ~1sec when connectivity returns >>> back. This just doesnt scale. >> >> maybe a stupid question, but 1000?. With an minRTO of 200ms and a maximum >> probing time of 120s, we 600 retransmits in a worst-case-senario >> (assumed that we get for every rot retransmission an icmp). No? > > Where is asserted the "max probing time of 120s" ? > > It is not the case on my machine : > I have way more retransmits than that, even if spaced by 1600 ms > > 07:16:13.389331 write(3, "\350F\235JC\357\376\363&\3\374\270R\21L\26\324{\37p\342\244i\304\356\241I:\301\332\222\26"..., 48) = 48 > 07:16:13.389417 select(7, [3 4], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [3]) > 07:31:39.901311 read(3, 0xff8c4c90, 8192) = -1 EHOSTUNREACH (No route to host) > > Old kernels where performing up to 15 retries, doing exponential backoff. > > Now its kind of unlimited, according to experimental results. That shouldn't be. It should stop after the same time a TCP connection with an RTO of Minimum RTO which is doing 15 retries (tcp_retries2=15) and doing exponential backoff. So it should be around 900s*. But it could be that because of the icsk_retransmit wrapover this doesn't work as expected. * 200ms + 400ms + 800ms ... Best regards, Arnd -- 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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