netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2 net-next] tcp: sk_add_backlog() is too agressive for TCP

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Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:25:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, rick.jones2@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	therbert@...gle.com, ncardwell@...gle.com, maze@...gle.com,
	ycheng@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 net-next] tcp: sk_add_backlog() is too agressive
 for TCP

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:21:18 +0300 (EEST)

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> That makes this a non-starter since we must therefore remember all of
>> the SACK boundaries in the original packets.
> 
> GRO works because TCP tends to use rather constant MSS, right? ...Since 
> ACKs and SACKs are nothing more than reflection of those MSS boundaries of 
> the opposite direction I don't find that as impossible as you do because 
> the same kind of "mss" assumption can be applied there. But GRO has made 
> this somewhat messier now because the receiver doesn't any more generate 
> ACK per MSS or ACK per 2*MSS but that could be "fixed" by offloading the 
> ACK sending when responding to a GROed packet.

We're talking about accumulating ACKs on GRO not data packets.
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