netdev - Re: Stable regression with 'tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets'

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 15:55:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	w@....eu
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stable regression with 'tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO
 packets'

From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 17:01:57 +0200

>>>From 6da6a21798d0156e647a993c31782eec739fa5df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 16:48:56 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] tcp: force push data out when buffers are missing
> 
> Commit 2f533844242 (tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets)
> significantly improved splice() performance for some workloads but
> caused stalls when pipe buffers were larger than socket buffers.
> 
> The issue seems to happen when no data can be copied at all due to
> lack of buffers, which results in pending data never being pushed.
> 
> This change checks if all pending data has been pushed or not and
> pushes them when waiting for send buffers.

Eric, please indicate whether we need Willy's patch here.

I want to propagate this fix as fast as possible if so.
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